Whicker: Trading Skubal doesn’t make sense for Tigers

“Alas, the headlines in Motown these days do not transmit that hope. They list all the ways that Tarik Skubal, their back-to-back Cy Young Award winner, should or should not be traded. Somehow the act of getting rid of your best player is seen as a path to progress, particularly when that player is the league’s best pitcher, and the best gate attraction for a franchise that has gone from 1.6 million fans to 1.8 to 2.4 in the past three years.”

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Elliott: Logan Allen, Canada's WBC mystery man

If the name Logan Allen is not known in households from New Westminster or Etobicoke, it is with good reason. He will make his debut wearing red and white at this year’s World Baseball Classic. You see the left-hander’s father Norman, grew up in Lachine, Que. playing hockey before moving to University of Florida, home of the Gators.

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