“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.”