Tarik Skubal seems much more likely to stay now that the Tigers have won 10 of 13 games and moved into the tight (but sad) AL wild-card race. 

“They could win the division,” one rival GM said. 

Either way, the Tigers have almost no chance to keep him long-term, and that’s even if owners get their way and a salary cap becomes reality. 

That won’t happen — not after offering him $75 million over four years a week before Garrett Crochet more than doubled that, then taking him to arbitration with the biggest gap ever ($13M).