{"id":664,"date":"2026-08-08T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=664"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:00:59","slug":"mlb-the-show-26-celebrates-the-trade-deadlines-biggest-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"MLB The Show 26 Celebrates The Trade Deadline\u2019s Biggest Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tarik Skubal has been one of the best starting pitchers in all of baseball over the last few years, winning two consecutive Cy Young Awards as a member of the Detroit Tigers. But the Tigers have been having a rough season, and the team dealt Skubal to the Dodgers at the trade deadline this past weekend. Now, MLB The Show 26 is celebrating Skubal&#8217;s move to Los Angeles with a special Diamond Dynasty card, so everyone can play as the biggest villain in baseball.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context='{ \"core\": { \"image\": { \"initialized\": true } } }' class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1843236\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/HPIA9Qia4AAF66c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1843236\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coming later today around noon PT \/ 3 PM ET, the New Threads Trade Deadline program contains a 99-rated Tarik Skubal. The other players and their ratings are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jo Adell (99)<\/li>\n<li>Taylor Ward (98)<\/li>\n<li>Arjun Nimmala (98)<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Zeferjahn (97)<\/li>\n<li>Luke Weaver (97)<\/li>\n<li>Luis Castillo (97) <\/li>\n<li>Liam Hicks (97)<\/li>\n<li>Daulton Varsho (97)<\/li>\n<li>AJ Minter (97)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skubal is one of two 99-rated cards in the bunch (though the extra booster packs contain a few more), and his real-life counterpart joins a team that already had the absolute best starting rotation in all of baseball. It makes the Dodgers even more of a ridiculously stacked team, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/article\/tarik-skubal-doesnt-sympathize-with-those-blaming-dodgers-for-ruining-baseball-after-trading-for-him-004056313.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/article\/tarik-skubal-doesnt-sympathize-with-those-blaming-dodgers-for-ruining-baseball-after-trading-for-him-004056313.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skubal said he has no sympathy<\/a> for people who blame the Dodgers for buying the best team every year. That being said, the Dodgers have been on a very rough stretch since the trade, so perhaps some form of karma is rebalancing the scales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skubal better enjoy the next few months of playing in his Dodgers uniform, because there&#8217;s a pretty good chance he&#8217;s not going to get to do it again until 2028. The CBA between the players and the league is set to expire, and a proposed salary cap is the biggest sticking point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarik Skubal has been one of the best starting pitchers in all of baseball over the last few years, winning two consecutive Cy Young Awards as a member of the Detroit Tigers. But the Tigers have been having a rough season, and the team dealt Skubal to the Dodgers at the trade deadline this past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}