There’s a chance the New York Yankees are already planning out their budget for free agency in a year and a half.<\/p>\n
That’s what ESPN’s Buster Olney implied during Sunday Night Baseball.<\/p>\n
Why is that?<\/p>\n
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One name: Tarik Skubal.<\/p>\n
The Detroit Tigers’ left-handed ace is slated to be a free agent after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Here’s what Olney had to say on ESPN’s broadcast:<\/p>\n
\u201cTarik Skubal is set to land 400 million after the 2026 season. The question is whether it will come from the Yankees, Dodgers or Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0<\/strong>Former Yankees, Astros slugger reaches 500 career home runs far from home<\/p>\n The heavy hitters are set to compete for the best southpaw on the planet.<\/p>\n The Yankees of old would classically win this battle. But clearly, the Dodgers and Mets have both entered the heavy-hitter equation of late.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Tigers will surely have a say in the matter, too. Skubal is dominant again in 2025 as Detroit holds the best record in baseball.<\/p>\n But Olney clearly gets the sense from some folks in baseball that the big markets are looking ahead to how they might land Skubal.<\/p>\n And if that’s the case, the Yankees will surely be in the picture.<\/p>\n MORE MLB NEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York classically would make this move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":70113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[323,2646,78,1430,1591,651,40,2013],"class_list":["post-70111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-astros","tag-buster-olney","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dodgers","tag-espn","tag-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-tarik-skubal"],"yoast_head":"\n