The Dodgers don't care about your feelings.
Nor should they.
Baseball's unapologetic behemoth got even more imposing, infuriating and inevitable late Saturday night. Tarik Skubal, he of the back-to-back AL Cy Young awards, is now a Los Angeles Dodger. The rich, once again, have gotten richer.
It's a fascinating, anticlimactic conclusion to what had been one of the more debated deadline sweepstakes for quite some time. Skubal's Detroit Tigers tossed fuel on the fire by failing to turn a disappointing season around. By the back end of last week, a trade appeared increasingly likely. And in the end, the game's evil empire won the bidding for the game's best hurler.
As one team employee put it to me last week: "If Andrew [Friedman] wants Skubal, he'll get Skubal." Turns out, Los Angeles' top baseball exec did indeed want the sport's most effective pitcher.
#skubal #angeles
Nor should they.
Baseball's unapologetic behemoth got even more imposing, infuriating and inevitable late Saturday night. Tarik Skubal, he of the back-to-back AL Cy Young awards, is now a Los Angeles Dodger. The rich, once again, have gotten richer.
It's a fascinating, anticlimactic conclusion to what had been one of the more debated deadline sweepstakes for quite some time. Skubal's Detroit Tigers tossed fuel on the fire by failing to turn a disappointing season around. By the back end of last week, a trade appeared increasingly likely. And in the end, the game's evil empire won the bidding for the game's best hurler.
As one team employee put it to me last week: "If Andrew [Friedman] wants Skubal, he'll get Skubal." Turns out, Los Angeles' top baseball exec did indeed want the sport's most effective pitcher.
#skubal #angeles
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