{"id":342040,"date":"2025-10-30T01:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342040\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T01:32:09","slug":"tigers-tarik-skubal-will-have-to-bridge-massive-contract-offer-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/342040\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers, Tarik Skubal will have to bridge massive contract offer gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The immense gap between Tigers and Tarik Skubal, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/16\/sports\/tigers-staring-down-250-million-gap-in-tarik-skubal-contract-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported here first<\/a>, is even bigger than first believed.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers offer a year ago to Skubal was below $80 million for four years. It was only reported here originally to be less than the $170M the Red Sox signed Garrett Crochet for, and it turns out to be less than half. Evan Petzold of the Detroit Free Press reported it was under $100M.<\/p>\n<p>Skubal\u2019s comp is pretty obviously Gerrit Cole, who received $324M six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals still don\u2019t believe it\u2019s likely <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/18\/sports\/tigers-franchise-altering-tarik-skubal-decision-comes-down-to-these-factors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Tigers will trade Skubal in winter <\/a>because they are a contending team that made the playoffs two years running. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The immense gap between Tigers and Tarik Skubal, reported here first, is even bigger than first believed. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":342041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1885,1266,62,2632,2225,34551,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-342040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-detroit-tigers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-columnists","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-tarik-skubal","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115460541237868398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}