Tarik Skubal to Dodgers nothing to complain about in Fantasy Baseball, but real baseball is another matter

Stock up for Skubal, but down for the game as a whole Aug 2, 2026 at 2:12 am ET • 4 min read This was entirely expected.Oh, you're telling me the best pitcher of the past three years is available for trade? Gee, I wonder who might get him. Could it be the organization that's landed every top prize of the past few years, the one with farm system that never seems to run out and the financial firepower to make homegrown talent entirely optional? Or would the Dodgers simply decide to sit this one out? That was me about two days before the trade. It wasn't the boldest take, but my point was that those entertaining alternate possibilities were setting themselves up for disappointment. This couldn't have gone any other way. The organizations with the prospect capital to outbid the Dodgers require