Tarik Skubal, the back-to-back American League Cy Young winner, has won his arbitration case and will make $32 million for the 2025 season. To say this is an unprecedented development would be an understatement. This sets a new bar for pitchers in arbitration, as Skubal in his final year of arbitration, has beaten the overall record set by Juan Soto in 2024. Skubal has shattered the previous...
Though a reported Mets target in Michael King officially came off the market on Thursday night upon his return to the San Diego Padres on a three-year, $75 million deal, the club still has a multitude of different ways in which it can upgrade its rotation this offseason. It’s been made crystal clear that president of baseball operations David Stearns prefers not to make any long-term...
Position: SP B/T: R/L Age: 29 (11/20/1996) 2025 Traditional Stats: 31 G, 195.1 IP, 2.21 ERA, 0.891 WHIP, 241 SO, 33 BB 2025 Advanced Stats: 187 ERA+, 32.2 K%, 4.4 BB%, 2.72 xERA, 2.45 FIP, 2.66 xFIP, 6.6 fWAR Early this off-season, reports surfaced that the Detroit Tigers offered ace Tarik Skubal an extension after their surprise 2024 Wild Card run. The offer was reported to be a four-year, $80...
In the second half of the 2025 season, the New York Mets had one of the worst rotations in baseball. Their 5.31 ERA was the fourth-highest and their 306 2/3 innings were the second-fewest. Only the Chicago White Sox had fewer innings from their starting rotation in the second half. The Mets have a couple of potential young aces in Nolan McLean and Jonah Tong, and they have solid depth arms in...
Major League Baseball and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Wednesday announced the Cy Young Award winners for 2025. For the first time since 2000, there was a repeat winner in the American League, as Detroit’s Tarik Skubal took home the Cy Young Award for the second consecutive year. Pedro Martinez was the last pitcher to win the award in back-to-back years for the AL, doing...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Dodgers won the National League pennant, sweeping the Brewers in four games to advance to the World Series. Shohei Ohtani delivered one of the best individual performances the game has ever seen in Game 4, hitting three home runs and throwing six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts. The Dodgers will defend their title against either the Blue Jays or Mariners. The...
For the second offseason in a row, it appears one of the game’s top left-handed starting pitchers could be traded. Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal is heading into his final year of arbitration with the Detroit Tigers, and it doesn’t seem as though the two sides are even remotely close to being on the same page when it comes to extension talks. The New York Post’s Jon Heyman...
The 2024 Cy Young Award Winners were announced on Wednesday night. The award went to two lefties: Atlanta Braves pitcher, Chris Sale in the National League and Detroit Tigers pitcher, Tarik Skubal in the American League. Chris Sale (NL) Sale’s Wednesday night Cy Young win caps off an incredible comeback year for the 35-year-old from Lakeland, Florida. This is his first Cy Young Award win,...
Good morning, Mets fans! Jacob deGrom started off Saturday’s game against the Phillies dominating and Edwin Díaz closed out the shutout. He earned his 200th career save. In doing so, the Mets extended their lead over Philadelphia to 10.5 games. The lead over Atlanta is 5.5 games. Latest Mets News Per SNY’s Jacob Resnick, Tommy Hunter is scheduled to be with Double-A Binghamton on a rehab...
