Tarik Skubal is now considering another WBC start which shouldn’t be a difficult decision

Tarik Skubal pitched three innings of one-run ball with five strikeouts against Great Britain on Saturday and helped Team USA roll to a 9-1 win.

Kyle Schwarber turns the lights on, Team USA blows out Great Britain 9-1

Skubal was originally planning to make one start and head back to Tigers Spring Training. Now, after talking to Detroit officials and his agent Scott Boras, he is at least considering sticking around for another one.

We covered this when the news first broke that Tarik Skubal would only be available for a single WBC start. It did not make sense then. It does not make sense now.

Tarik Skubal on staying with Team USA

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“I didn’t expect these types of emotions to run through my brain,” Skubal said. “I was pretty committed to making a start and getting back to camp. Things have changed, obviously, that’s why I’m going to have some conversations.”

Here is the decision Tarik Skubal is apparently wrestling with.

Option A: go back to Tigers spring training and throw pitches against minor leaguers in meaningless March games that nobody watches.

Option B: stay with the best baseball team ever assembled, pitch in a packed stadium in the single-elimination round of the World Baseball Classic, and represent your country against the best players in the world.

This is not a hard decision. It is genuinely one of the easiest decisions a professional baseball player could ever face.

Thankfully, it looks like Tarik Skubal now knows it too.

“When you get into these environments, when you get this team, it’s hard to walk away from that.”

Right. Because you should not walk away from that. The Tigers will be fine. Detroit is not going to be derailed because Tarik Skubal threw an extra 45 pitches in March.

Team USA plays Mexico on Monday night.

That game has Paul Skenes starting, a packed house in Houston, and the most electric atmosphere of the tournament so far. Tarik Skubal could be a part of this run all the way to the semifinals if the U.S. advances.

Stop overthinking it. Stay with Team USA. Throw the baseball. For America.

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