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The Detroit Tigers have enjoyed one of the best first halves of a baseball season in franchise history, now atop the American League Central Division with bigger goals than a division championship in their sights.
The Tigers have a chance to head back to the playoffs and to potentially enter them with homefield through, as manager AJ Hinch's team prepares to finish what it started leading up Major League Baseball's All-Star Break on Tuesday, July 15.
Recently, a well known Detroit sports personality and longtime announcer fired a crucial warning to the Tigers organization with ace Tarik Skubal's contract situation still up in the air and Detroit in pursuit of an AL pennant and World Series appearance.
Tarik Skubal rears back for a pitch on June 29 against the Minnesota Twins at Comerica Park.
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"He is going to walk away a year and three months from now, and we get nothing in return," host Sean Baligian of the Woodward Sports Network warned about the Tigers lefty starter, who won the American League Cy Young Award last season.
"I'm convinced."
Baligian, who announces football and hockey games at downtown Detroit based Wayne State University and has a vote in the Heisman race, warned that the Tigers must keep Skubal to maintain realistic hopes of winning a World Series.
"I think that at that point in time you're throwing away any chance you have of a World Series, you're throwing it away, you're just going, 'We don't care about the World Series.
"I have a feeling that's how it's going to end. I hope I'm wrong," Baligian, a mainstay on Detroit sports talk radio and television shows, continued as he revealed his controversial comments on the superstar Detroit Tigers pitcher.
Skubal is under contract through 2026 and could become a free agent the following year. Both Skubal and Tigers management have discussed a possible contract extension without an agreement.
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