Detroit Tigers president of baseball operations Scott Harris says he felt it would have been "irresponsible" not to trade ace Tarik Skubal the day before the MLB trade deadline. "I'm very confident that we absolutely maximized the return that we could get for Tarik Skubal... Harris blamed himself for the Tigers ending up in position to trade both Skubal and Casey Mize at the deadline. "I think there is a unique dynamic with a player like Tarik Skubal. "There was no team that was pursuing Tarik Skubal that was waiting to see if they could get someone else and then pivoting to Tarik if they didn't get them.