Tigers SP Jack Flaherty laments Tarik Skubal, Casey Mize trades with hilarious post

Nypost · Aug 03, 2026 · 296 words · By Grant Young

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What to know about Player Emotional Response

The Detroit Tigers lost their two best starting pitchers at this year’s trade deadline—and another one of their starters is in his feelings about their absence.

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What happened

The Detroit Tigers lost their two best starting pitchers at this year’s trade deadline—and another one of their starters is in his feelings about their absence.

Why it matters

Two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend, in what was the biggest trade of the deadline by far.

Common ground

Then, right-handed hurler Casey Mize was traded to the San Diego Padres right in the final moments before the deadline struck on Monday.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Causal Oversimplification: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “was a key part of Los Angeles capturing the World Series that season”

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Multiple sources (Nypost, Last Word On Baseball, and social media reports) confirm the Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series.

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web search NEUTRAL — Your 2024 #worldseries champions: the los angeles @dodgers!The Dodgers won a Game 5 of wild extremes. After going hitless in the first inning in each of the World Series’ first four games, the Bronx B…
https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-2024

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web search NEUTRAL — Dodgers Win World Series with 7-6 Comeback Win over Yankees. The Los Angeles Dodgers won their eighth World Series championship (and seventh since moving to LA) Wednesday night after a stunning 7-6 co…
https://lastwordonsports.com/baseball/2024/10/31/dodgers-win…

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Claim 2: “Two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend”

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The claim is reported by Nypost and confirmed by the Wikipedia entry for Tarik Skubal, which states he is a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers and previously played for the Detroit Tigers.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cy Young Award, officially the Cy Young Memorial Award, is given annually to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB), one each for the American League (AL) and National League (NL). The a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Young_Award

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tarik Daniel Skubal (born November 20, 1996) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Ti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarik_Skubal

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Claim 3: “Jack Flaherty is one of the starters still on Detroit’s roster”

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There is conflicting evidence. One web search result mentions him as a starter on the Tigers roster, and his Wikipedia page lists him as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. However, other sources (Baseball-Reference, Wikipedia disambiguation) list him as having played for the Dodgers, and the claim in index 4 (which is corroborated by Wikipedia) suggests he was traded to the Dodgers in 2024.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Below is a partial list of minor league baseball players in the Detroit Tigers system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Tigers_minor_league_pl…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Detroit Tigers are an American professional baseball team based in Detroit. The Tigers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. One of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Tigers

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jack Rafe Flaherty (, born October 15, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Flaherty

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Claim 4: “He was traded to the Dodgers at the deadline in 2024”

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Wikipedia's disambiguation page and the main Jack Flaherty entry confirm he is/was a pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, supporting the claim of the trade.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jack Flaherty (born 1995) is an American baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jack Flaherty may also refer to: Jack Flaherty (gymnast) (1908–1980), British Olympic gymnast Jack Flaherty (pol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Flaherty_(disambiguation)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 136th season for the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB), their 68th season in Los Angeles, California, and their 64th season playi…
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Claim 5: “Flaherty posted the GIF of Will Smith looking around an empty room then sighing during an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to his X account”

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The search results provide general information about Twitter GIF downloaders and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but no specific evidence that Jack Flaherty posted this specific GIF to his X account.

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web search NEUTRAL — Our Twitter GIF downloader does the reverse. We fetch the MP4 that Twitter stores, then re-encode it back into a true .gif file directly in your browser — using an optimized palette so the result stay…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Carlton Dance GIF by HBO Max - Find & Share on GIPHY.
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Claim 6: “landing on the injured list with right flexor inflammation at the end of June”

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The search results provided are general history facts (Bastille Day, June 3rd) and do not contain any information regarding Jack Flaherty's injury status or right flexor inflammation in June.

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web search NEUTRAL — Also on This Day in History Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on June 3rd
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 21, 2017 · Bastille Day is a holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille—a military fortress and prison—on July 14, 1789, in a violent uprising that helped usher in the French Revolution.
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Claim 7: “right-handed hurler Casey Mize was traded to the San Diego Padres right in the final moments before the deadline struck on Monday”

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Multiple independent sources (Nypost, AOL, al.com, mlive.com) and Wikipedia confirm that Casey Mize was traded from the Detroit Tigers to the San Diego Padres.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 San Diego Padres season is the 58th season of the San Diego Padres franchise. The Padres compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division. The…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Casey Arthur Mize (born May 1, 1997) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Detroit Tigers. Mize …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Mize

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jackson David Wolf (born April 22, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Wolf

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