Tarik Skubal has been one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball since the end of the 2023 season, as he is now one of two players in the last 50 years of Detroit Tigers history to post a sub-2.00 ERA over a 21-start span.
Skubal is 9-3 with a 2.32 ERA, 0.938 WHIP, 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings and a 3.9 WAR through 16 starts in 2024. That dominance is a continuation of his torrid finish to 2023, when he went 4-0 with a 0.90 ERA, 0.600 WHIP and 12.9 strikeouts per nine innings across five starts in September., Skubal is one of two Tigers pitchers to boast a sub-2.00 ERA over a 21-start span in the last 50 years of franchise history.
The only other Detroit pitcher to achieve the feat is Justin Verlander, who did so between the end of 2011 and the start of 2012.The only Tigers pitchers in the last 50 years to have a 21-start stretch with an ERA below 2.00 are Skubal and Justin Verlander .There aren't many pitchers more celebrated in Tigers history than Verlander, of course, who went 183-114 with a 3.49 ERA, 1.191 WHIP and a 56.6 WAR with the club between 2005 and 2017.
Skubal is among the leading contenders to win Cy Young here in 2024, taking an important step forward in his meteoric development. He is 32-30 with a 3.55 ERA, 1.104 WHIP and 9.0 WAR since making his MLB debut in 2020, at which point he was a top-50 prospect in baseball.Sam Connon is a Staff Writer for Fastball on the Sports Illustrated/FanNation networks.
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