When a player returns from a major injury, it’s always difficult to know what to expect. Baseball is hard enough to predict from year to year for healthy players, but results can really vary wildly when there is an injury and a long layoff involved. The Detroit Tigers had a lot of individual success stories in 2023, but two of the biggest were the outstanding returns to action for both Tarik Skubal and Jake Rogers.
Skubal was clearly the Tigers’ Comeback Player of the Year, and challenged pitchers like Shane McClanahan, Blake Snell, or Framber Valdez as top left-hander in the game in the second half of the season.