Tarik Skubal was coincidentally available in the days leading up to the Aug. 3 deadline, after which teams cannot trade players off their 40-man roster. Instead, he went to Los Angeles, where he will try to help the Dodgers win a third consecutive World Series. The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays had the prospect capital to get a deal done and have never won a World Series in their history. Even a columnist for the Los Angeles Times admonished the Brewers for not getting a Skubal trade done. But those bullet points were offered in service of the argument for winning the 2026 World Series.