Those weren’t baseball’s trade winds blowing around Tarik Skubal. It was the lingering breeze of Jake Rogers’ mad dash around the bases.
No one knows for sure what will happen with the Tigers’ ace left-hander. Even if president of baseball operations Scott Harris is simply listening to interest at this point, a week ahead of baseball’s Trade Deadline, it’s entirely possible a team with a deep farm system will overwhelm him with an offer that, arguably, makes Detroit markedly better next year and beyond in exchange for a Cy Young-quality season this year, presenting Harris with a predicament.