How Tarik Skubal Got His Name

Rosey sits down with the reigning AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal to talk about his childhood, various hair styles, last year's playoff run and how he got his name. For more content from this week like Questions with The Queen and Baby Ballplayers, check out this episode on Youtube on the JM Baseball channel! 0:00 Intro 0:26 Welcome back! 1:28 Tarik Skubal's hometown 2:23 Trips to Vegas in high school 3:23 Growing up the second youngest of 5 brothers 4:28 Wanting to play basketball growing up 5:28 Why Tarik cut his hair 7:38 Buying his first tuxedo for BBWAA awards 8:56 Giving up a playoff grand slam to Lane Thomas 10:36 Rose saying Tarik's name wrong predicting him to win Cy Young 11:38 Tarik's alias 12:13 How Tarik got his name Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.