{"id":87286,"date":"2026-08-07T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87286"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:48:36","slug":"mlb-the-show-26-celebrates-the-trade-deadlines-biggest-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87286","title":{"rendered":"MLB The Show 26 Celebrates The Trade Deadline\u2019s Biggest Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\" 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\" \/> <\/p>\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<p>  Jo Adell (98) Taylor Ward (98) Arjun Nimmala (98) Ryan Zeferjahn (97) Luke Weaver (97) Luis Castillo (97)  Liam Hicks (97) Daulton Varsho (97) AJ Minter (97)  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, Skubal is the only 99-rated card of 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<\/p>\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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":87288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87289,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87286\/revisions\/87289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}