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Skubal Sweepstakes and Camp Reality · The Rand Report: Sports

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  Biggest arm available just through what might
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  be his last pitch in a Detroit uniform. Tarek
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  Scoobal, two -time Cy Young, and the entire league
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  is already measuring the return. This is The
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  Rand Report. I'm Jim Rand. Wednesday and Thursday
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  just put the sports calendar on notice. First,
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  Scoobal. He went out there Wednesday and pitched
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  like the ace he's been for two years. Then the
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  Tigers blew a big lead and lost in 12. That loss
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  might have been the final argument. Detroit is
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  under 500. The window is closing and the offers
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  are about to get real. The names that keep floating
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  are the ones with the best farms. Dodgers, Brewers,
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  Rays, Cubs are in the conversation too. Everyone
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  else is posturing. The soft talk about we're
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  still competing is getting quieter by the hour.
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  This is a rental that could decide a postseason
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  and the Tigers know exactly what they have. First
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  NFL camps. The first full practices are already
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  drawing blood. Saints defensive tackle Brian
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  Bresie feared torn ACL on Wednesday. Just like
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  that Panthers rookie wideout Chris Brazil moderate
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  LCL tear up to eight weeks. Micah Parsons is
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  still months away in Green Bay. Multiple teams
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  are already dealing with PUP lists that look
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  longer than expected. This is the part of the
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  calendar where every organization talks about
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  health and depth. Then the first week of contact
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  starts rewriting the depth chart. Hope is highest
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  right now. Reality is already punching. Third,
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  one clean move in the middle of the noise. The
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  Saints locked up Chris Olave. four years up to
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  132 million, 90 million guaranteed. He showed
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  up to camp, he waited, and New Orleans paid him
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  like a true number one. In a week full of hold
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  -ins, soft timelines, and early injuries, this
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  was one of the few stories that actually made
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  sense. They paid the player who produces, not
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  the narrative. Third, here's the bottom line.
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  Scoobal is the clearest high stakes decision
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  in baseball right now. Whoever gets him gets
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  a legitimate October Difference Maker for a few
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  months. The NFL is already reminding everyone
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  that training camp is not a highlight reel. It's
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  attrition. And the Saints just showed they understand
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  the difference between talking about a core and
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  paying for one. The loudest voices are going
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  to spend the next four days spinning every Scoobal
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  rumor. They're going to overreact to every limited
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  participant in camp. That's their job. Ours is
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  simpler. Watch who actually moves, watch who
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  actually holds up, and ignore the soft stories
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  that don't match the tape. This has been The
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  Rand Report. I'm Jim Rand. No soft takes. See
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