Team USA’s curious 55-pitch plan for Tarik Skubal at WBC

Source: New York Post

Tarik Skubal’s role in the World Baseball Classic has been reduced to a Stan Lee-style cameo. The reigning back-to-back AL Cy Young winner is expected to throw “about 55 pitches” against Great Britain in his lone start for Team USA on Saturday in the highly anticipated international baseball tournament, according to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale.   The curiously low pitch limit surfaces a week after Skubal — originally anticipated to form a vicious one-two punch alongside NL Cy Young winner Paul Skenes — revealed that he intends to make just one start before rejoining the Tigers during spring training.