Tarik Skubal projection scenarios for free-agent deal

It’s not every year that a pitcher of Tarik Skubal’s caliber hits the open market. Heck, there haven’t been many pitchers, period, who’ve had a three-year run as dominant as Skubal’s 2024-26.

Among pitchers who debuted after integration in 1947, only eight have produced a three-year stretch at any point in their careers in which they threw at least 500 innings with an ERA+ of 170…