{"id":5996,"date":"2025-10-17T04:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5996\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:18:21","slug":"tigers-staring-down-250-million-gap-in-tarik-skubal-contract-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/5996\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers staring down $250 million gap in Tarik Skubal contract talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tigers and superstar pitcher Tarik Skubal have a lot of work to do if they\u2019re going to bridge quite possibly the biggest gap in MLB negotiating history: an estimated quarter of a billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, that\u2019s not a misprint. It\u2019s close to $250 million.<\/p>\n<p>Word is, a year ago the Tigers offered Skubal well less than the $170M deal signed a bit later by Garrett Crochet. While there\u2019s no belief Skubal named his price, his obvious comp is Gerrit Cole, who signed six years ago for a record $324M, and with prices up (Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander $43.33M a year, Juan Soto $51M), the baseline ask for Skubal is seen as $400M.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37402645\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/detroit-tigers-starting-pitcher-tarik-113228700_52bcb8.jpg\" alt=\"Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal yells after striking out a Seattle Mariners batter.\" class=\"wp-image-37402645\"  \/>igers starting pitcher Tarik Skubal (29) reacts after striking out Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh. Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>The equation has changed, as Skubal is now<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/11\/sports\/tarik-skubal-offers-intriguing-comment-on-future-as-trade-speculation-swirls-after-tigers-alds-exit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> only one season from free agency <\/a>after putting together a second straight Cy Young season. He led the AL in ERA (2.21) and pitching WAR (6.6) and was second to Crochet in strikeouts (241).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tigers and superstar pitcher Tarik Skubal have a lot of work to do if they\u2019re going to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2589,20,3473,5515,9,11,10,319,431,5516,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-5996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-mlb-free-agency","11":"tag-mlb-playoffs","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-contracts","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}