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As rumors surround star pitcher Tarik Skubal and it’s expected that whoever signs him will give him a contract worth around $400 million, there could be concerns regarding his health and medicals. While the contract offer for Skubal is yet to come, this MLB insider gives insight into how the league is looking at Skubal and his health heading into the offseason.
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Potential health concerns come from last season, when he had to have surgery on his elbow to remove loose bodies, but he returned after four weeks. Before that, the only other notable operations for Skubal happened in 2022 when he needed flexor tendon surgery, and also in 2019 when he underwent Tommy John Surgery.
According to Will Sammon, Ken Rosenthal, and Katie Woo of The Athletic, the lead people of teams interested in Skubal “want a better understanding of what to expect” regarding health, especially since the pitcher is turning 30 years old on Nov. 20.
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“As executives gathered for the general managers’ meetings on Monday, teams holding interest in Tarik Skubal, the market’s far-and-away best free agent, were assessing his medical reports,” Sammon, Rosenthal, and Woo wrote.
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Here’s how teams look at Tarik Skubal’s medicals
Despite the aforementioned operations, that hasn’t stopped Skubal from being one of the top pitchers in baseball, winning two AL Cy Young Awards when with the Detroit Tigers. After being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers this past season, The Athletic reports that scouts and executives “harbored no concerns” about Skubal’s medicals.
“From an eye-test perspective, multiple scouts and executives, who spoke anonymously so as to candidly discuss the matter, said they harbored no concerns about Skubal’s physical condition or mechanics,” Sammon, Rosenthal, and Woo continued. “Even when he missed time with injuries, the evaluators said, Skubal consistently returned relatively quickly to produce elite value. One executive who monitored Skubal closely over the final two months of 2026 said Skubal’s 925 1/3 innings since his call-up in 2020 make him as durable as anyone.”
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At any rate, it remains to be seen which teams break the bank to go after Skubal this offseason, as he projects to get a $400 million contract.
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