Can the Tigers Survive the Absence of Tarik Skubal?
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt, and DVR break down a Tarik Skubal-less Detroit Tigers and ask whether the team can stay afloat until the reigning AL Cy Young winner gets back. Then, the trio turns to the LA Angels — what's gone wrong for the organization, and is trading Mike Trout actually on the table? Later, Eno and DVR sit down with The Athletic's Phillies writer Matt Gelb to talk through a potential homecoming for the Philly native Trout.
Rundown:
3:55 Tarik Skubal to Have Elbow Surgery
7:55 Can the Tigers Stay Afloat?
13:54 Is the Bullpen Good Enough?
18:08 More of the Same in Anaheim
22:35 The Core Isn’t Bad!: Can It Improve Enough to Contend Though?
29:40 Is Trading Mike Trout on the Table?
37:06 Matt Gelb Joins the Show
37:24 Mike Trout to the Phillies?
39:47 The Phillies' Need for a Right-Handed Bat
45:00 The Phillies' Bullpen: Where Have the Strikeouts Gone?
46:56 Jesús Luzardo's Inconsistency
49:08 Adjustment for Aaron Nola?
53:12 Is Anything New in the Mattingly Era?
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Rates and Burles, it's episode number 1,000. |
| 0:04.9 | Can't believe we've been doing this show since 2019. |
| 0:07.5 | You know, happy birthday to us? |
| 0:11.0 | Yay! |
| 0:14.0 | Not so happy a day for Tigers fans and Terrick Scuba, who is out for at least two to three months. Good news is |
| 0:23.4 | Terrick Scouble could still return this season. Beyond that, we're going to look at the |
| 0:28.4 | Angels. Can we actually save the Angels long term with a Mike Trout trade? Could we also |
| 0:34.9 | fix the Phillies with a Mike Trout trade? Matt Gelb joins us later to check our math. |
| 0:41.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:51.6 | Welcome to rates and barrels. It is Tuesday, May 5th, happy Cinco de Mayo. Derek Van Riper, Inoceros, Britgeroli here. |
| 0:59.3 | Episode number 1,000, with an asterisk, number 1,000 on the non-paywall side. If you are an original listener of this show, you go all the way back to the beginning. |
| 1:09.6 | We were behind the paywall at the |
| 1:11.5 | athletic when we got started. That was in the pre-Brit era. That was like really, really early in the |
| 1:16.8 | show's history. But a huge thank you to everyone who's been part of the ride, whether you jumped on |
| 1:21.5 | this winter or at the beginning or somewhere in between. We've had so many great producers and co-hosts, |
| 1:28.5 | guests, friends, teammates from the Athletic |
| 1:30.3 | that have made this show special over the years. |
| 1:33.3 | Hopefully we can get a thousand more. |
| 1:35.0 | Honestly, projecting the future that far is very difficult to do. |
| 1:39.4 | But, Britt, how's it going for you on this Tuesday? |
| 1:41.9 | It's going great. |
| 1:42.7 | You guys are big time now. |
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