There's a number floating around this weekend that Tigers fans probably don't want to look at too closely, but here it is anyway. Baseball Trade Values, the site that assigns every player in the sport a "surplus value" beyond his salary, ran the math on the Skubal deal within minutes of it breaking. Today the #Dodgers reportedly acquired LHP Tarik Skubal ($30.2M surplus trade value) from the #Tigers in exchange for OF Zyhir Hope ($22.4M) and RHPs Brady Smith ($1.5M) and River Ryan ($0.1M) ($24.0M ttl). — Baseball Trade Values (@BaseballValues) August 2, 2026That gap reads differently once you set it next to the other big rental-arm swap of the weekend, so far. Today the #Rays reportedly acquired RHP Freddy Peralta ($5.6M surplus trade value) from the #Mets in exchange for OF Aidan Smith ($8.4M), RHP Gary Gill Hill ($4.2M) and 2B Emilien Pitre ($0.8M).