Tigers' Tarik Skubal trade sweepstakes is down to Dodgers, 5 other teams

The MLB trade deadline is less than two weeks away.Whether or not the Detroit Tigers trade Tarik Skubal is a decision that will soon be finalized. The Los Angeles Dodgers, and the rest of MLB, are watching closely.The Tigers are still in a tough spot in the American League playoff race. They're not out of it, but they're outside the wild card looking in, and they're crowded with a bunch of other sort-of hopefuls, too.Skubal's contract is up at the end of the year, so keeping him and missing the playoffs, only to lose him for nothing in the offseason, would be a Detroit disaster.That's why ESPN set Skubal's odds in a new article on Tuesday as 60% chance of being traded by the deadline.Maybe the most notable new information from insider Jeff Passan in that article, which re-hashes a lot of t