Two days before Monday’s trade deadline, Los Angeles and Detroit agreed to the blockbuster deal that’s got much of baseball world up in arms. Many fans felt that teams with loaded farm systems, such as the Brewers and Rays, should’ve done more to acquire Tarik Skubal at the trade deadline to prevent him from joining the Dodgers, who were already favorites to three-peat as World Series champions and are now overwhelmingly so.
Milwaukee has taken some heat for not pushing harder to acquire Skubal, in what was ultimately a rather passive deadline for the Brew Crew. However, reports have since emerged that indicate the Brewers did in fact make a rather competitive proposal to the Tigers, one which was arguably higher in value than the Dodgers’ deal that was ultimately accepted.
