Tthe Tigers fell to 50–57 on Monday due to an ill-timed three-game losing streak that put them 4 1/2 games back in the American League wild-card race, and the chatter around a possible Tarik Skubal blockbuster at the trade deadline has returned to the spotlight.
Any hope that Detroit could play its way back into the AL playoff picture is fading fast, and the front office may not need much more convincing that it’s finally time to pull the trigger on a Skubal trade with the MLB trade deadline just one week away.
