Tarik Skubal

#29

Pitcher · Detroit Tigers

Baseball

Nationality

United States

Born

1996-11-20

Height

6' 3"

Weight

240

Position

Pitcher

Number

#29

Tarik Daniel Skubal (born November 20, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Amateur career Skubal attended Kingman Academy of Learning in Kingman, Arizona and played college baseball at Seattle University. He missed most of the 2016 season and all of 2017 after undergoing Tommy John surgery. Despite the injury, he was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 29th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and returned to Seattle. He was then drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the ninth round of the 20…