Tarik Skubal threw a 99.9 mph fastball past Wyatt Langford for a fourth-inning strikeout, one of his 32 whiffs -- the most by a Tigers pitcher in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) -- on Friday night.

The Detroit Tigers' Tarik Skubal, the New York Yankees' Max Fried and the LA Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto are three of the best-performing aces in MLB this season.

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The Detroit Tigers saw their first AL Cy Young winner since 2013 last year when Tarik Skubal became the unanimous choice, and he might just do it again.

Tarik Skubal was the first one on the field and easy to pick out — a lefty wearing a black t-shirt with SKUBAL 29 on the back. He kept throwing the ball to the catcher, taking two or three steps back toward center field after every throw.

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Tarik Skubal has appropriately taken the baseball world by storm. The defending American League Cy Young Award winner is on a collision course to win it again.

The Detroit Tigers continue to fly under the radar as MLB's least appreciated contender. The American League feels especially wide open this season, but folks d