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Pirates Trade Proposal For Tarik Skubal Would be Major Risk
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There are certain teams around Major League Baseball who have a much better chance of landing a player of Tarik Skubal 's caliber than others. As crazy as it might sound to some Pittsburgh Pirates fans, they're actually at the top of that list.
I know Pirates fans will say there's no reason to trade for a player like Skubal right now because they aren't going to pay him, but if Pittsburgh continues to hover around the playoff hunt and has an opportunity to make the postseason, it wouldn't be the craziest idea to move on from a couple of players to land Skubal and hope that the pitching staff would be the best in baseball come October to win it all.
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I don't want to say that's what will happen, but the Pirates can definitely make a very intriguing offer, and Bleacher Report recently proposed one that could get the job done.
"The Trade: Detroit Tigers send LHP Tarik Skubal to Pittsburgh Pirates for OF Edward Florentino and LHP Hunter Barco
"Florentino and Barco are two of Pittsburgh's top prospects, and not needing to part with the crown jewel of their farm system, 2025 No. 6 overall pick RHP Seth Hernandez, would be huge for them. And though Skubal's full-season salary of $32M would be laughably more than this franchise has ever spent for one season of one player before, the post-deadline prorated salary of $9.4M is doable. What we don't know is what the asking price is going to be for two months of Skubal's services, if he makes it to the trade block at all. But this would at least figure to be a competitive offer," Kerry Miller of Bleacher Report wrote .
While I don't mind this trade if it were to happen, I can understand why some Pirates fans would be a bit skeptical, given Hunter Barco and Edward Florentino's age.
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The idea isn't that Skubal isn't better than those two guys, but that they're much younger and still have multiple years of control, while Skubal is a free agent at the end of the campaign.
That's ultimately something the Pirates and other teams in Major League Baseball will have to consider this summer.
