00:04Tigers lose yesterday 4-2.
00:06They lose the series to Houston.
00:08Two games to one.
00:10Off today, back home tomorrow night at Camerica
00:14against the Chicago White Sox.
00:16First of a 10-game homestand.
00:19Tarek Skubal will be on the mound on Friday.
00:22By the way, Justin Verlander is scheduled to pitch on Sunday.
00:26All right.
00:27Tarek Skubal is going to be the focus of conversations
00:31throughout the baseball world up until when he gets dealt.
00:35I'm not even going to use the word if.
00:37When he gets dealt.
00:39The question we want to ask is,
00:42when do you think is most advantageous for the Tigers to deal him?
00:49248-539-9797 is the telephone number
00:53and also the text information as well.
00:56Now, ESPN's Jeff Passan was on the Rich Eisen show earlier this week
01:03and he addressed, first of all, the Tigers' wishes to trade Skubal.
01:09and the Tigers 1-game homestand.
01:56and uh everybody seems to agree that the tigers should trade him because they don't see this
02:03big turnaround coming although there are some in tiger land whether it's fans whether it's
02:08broadcasters whether it's organizations just some not a majority who look at 2024 and say god who
02:16would ever thought we could have done that and you look at 2025 and say god i can't believe we
02:21did
02:21that as well on the negative side so baseball is a long season crazy things happen can't live like
02:27that and uh as far as when i think they should at least give him a couple more starts make
02:34sure
02:34he's completely healthy and there's a risk there as well from the tigers uh but somewhere around the
02:39all-star break either before or after and that gives you if it's after the all-star break it's
02:43basically two and a half weeks before the trading deadline because sometimes waiting till the very
02:49end who knows you know whether scott harris will be able to make a great move when he's backed against
02:58the wall time wise i remember jeb when jd martin when alavila traded jd martinez it was a few weeks
03:04before the deadline and some people were kind of well he could have got more at the deadline
03:07uh i'm not so sure right i mean the longer you wait
03:14some of the theory is you could have more suitors maybe there is somebody that is like a milwaukee
03:19i think they would love to be able to trade for tarek scoobal especially if they were to suffer an
03:26injury in their pitching rotation which would maybe up their urgency and up the return yes
03:32because they're going to be bidding against the dodgers probably atlanta um maybe even philly yes
03:38um and so yeah i i do think there's value in that um do you think all things being equaled
03:45that they
03:45would get a better return because he is a rental now if he goes to the dodgers it's probably not
03:50a
03:50rental they're just going to give him some astronomical number to sign a contract anyone else may just
03:55simply be a rental do you think they would pay more earlier to have that rental for two and a
04:03half or
04:03three months versus just the final two months of the season right i mean that's that's that's the
04:08question and it's up to scott harris to get the maximum return and and another team involved you'd
04:13say well they already have great pitching uh being the yankees well yeah la already has good
04:19i know yeah i know but yeah but i'm gonna say what i'm gonna say is the yankees with their
04:23great
04:24pitching of cole and slitter and and freed among others who knows how much i don't know pressure
04:31or seduction the steinbrenners got from the knicks you're going to see either one of the greatest
04:37biggest parades of all time today in new york and maybe you know the yankees are sitting there saying
04:43well you know we really want to have a parade too let's go all in on on scuba as well
04:50because who are
04:51they mostly if they're the representatives from the american league who are they most likely going
04:55to be playing against the dodgers the dodgers and so it's not just an addition to hey we want to
05:00get
05:01to the world series it's an addition we want to get there we want to actually be able to compete
05:04against that dodger lineup um also uh passin was talking about with rich eisen on the rich eisen show
05:13uh that terek skubel will be coveted by a lot of teams
05:21so
05:47so
05:54so
06:00so
06:06so
06:16so
06:27who wouldn't
06:29oh right um
06:32and i mean so the the question is not necessarily like we're talking about not if he's going to be
06:39because the tigers are now 14 games below 500 and i doubt there's going to be a team that makes
06:44the
06:44postseason that is sub 500
06:49who who who wants to compete with the dodgers right there are a few teams not that many but
06:55there are a few and damn right steve you're on 97 one hey yeah i think we should list the
07:03terek for sale now let the conversation start lead it up into all-star weekend you can get another
07:09good start or two in and then get the best the best uh collection of prospects you can let's build
07:15for the future we've got a good young core we're going to lose them anyway and i i wouldn't just
07:20stop at terek i trade casey my oh yes anybody that's not signed for the next two years out well
07:26definitely for the next definitely for the next year who are free agents like you know tour as if
07:30he's healthy yes you trade anybody everybody who does not have a contract for next year has to be
07:36traded all right here's some text uh trade scuba as soon as possible every start he makes is a risk
07:43and trading now gets the most values acquiring team gets him for more starts that you know on paper you
07:51it seems correct however a lot of times if you wait things escalate a little bit so i understand both
07:59sides i would wait till after the all-star break some call me delusional that being said even after the
08:05last two losses the tigers did not drop back in the standings at all both chicago cleveland
08:11toronto and oakland all lost as well yeah but there's six teams ahead of you in the wild card
08:16right and and the thing that you're missing is while you didn't lose any ground you're not gaining any
08:23ground and the clock is ticking there's only so you're wasting opportunity there's only so many games
08:29left and just to get back to 500 for the rest of the season you're gonna have to play 14
08:34games above
08:35500 season is two days shorter yep uh i can't wait for scuba to be traded so we can stop
08:41talking about
08:42him the same topic for the past year plus ad nauseam the most boring topic well you know
08:47sorry it's it's all coming to a head right now yes that's a vote for trade him sooner yes uh
08:52the elephant in
08:53the room aj hinch has a losing record with this team and it's not a very good man it's not
08:59a very
08:59good manager if you take away the last two months of 24 and the first two months of 25 out
09:04of his six
09:04year tenure he's way way way below 500 he's proving this year just how bad a manager he is well
09:11i will
09:11say this uh this has not been a good year for aj hinch and i'm not even talking about the
09:16injuries
09:17some of the decisions he's made just are mind-boggling even the other night when he took
09:23montero out earlier than he should have when he was in relief to put what i think he put vest
09:29in
09:29um well he's still stuck on matchups the jami jones things is just ridiculous it's absolutely absurd
09:37and in fact some people give uh his his love of this pinch hitting deal has given him the nickname
09:45of some people called aj pinch our telephone number is 248-539-9797
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