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The biggest move of the trade deadline is official — Tarik Skubal is a Los Angeles Dodger, and the baseball world is still processing it. CBS Sports hands LA an easy A on the deal, while the Tigers take heat not just for the trade itself but for ever letting things get to this point. Detroit got pieces back, but giving up an ace of Skubal's caliber stings no matter the return.
And speaking of the Dodgers, the rotation they're building is drawing words like unstoppable and ridiculous — and those are the measured takes. With Skubal now slotting in alongside what was already one of the deepest staffs in baseball, opposing lineups are going to need a miracle just to stay in games. This is a rotation built for October, full stop.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee isn't waiting around to be impressed. The Brewers knocked off the Angels three to one on Saturday night behind Brice Turang's go-ahead single in the eighth, and just like that Milwaukee owns the best record in baseball at sixty-nine and forty-one, nudging the Dodgers right out of the top spot. Robert Gasser was sharp on the mound and the Brewers have quietly become the team nobody wants to talk about — but everybody should.
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