DUNEDIN, Fla. — Ask most starting pitchers, and they’ll say they don’t think about who’s starting on the mound for the opposing team. They don’t have to pitch to the guy, or worry about hitting him, so they’ll focus on their own game.
But when Tarik Skubal realized earlier in the week who would be starting opposite him for his visit to the Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon, he was geeked.
“Oh, [heck] yeah,” Skubal said Wednesday when told Max Scherzer was the Blue Jays’ scheduled starter.
Skubal has Justin Verlander as a teammate with the Tigers this spring. He shared a locker room with Clayton Kershaw for his World Baseball Classic stint with Team USA, where Andy Pettitte was his pitching coach. But he had never…