I keep seeing lines along the lines "what time better than now to go for it" type thing for the Brewers. Which I don't agree with at all, I think they think 2-3 years from now is a much much better time to go for it. Dodgers stars will be aging hard and the dead salaries have to start hurting at some point. Yelich will be off the books and hopefully enough of these prospects hit and will be cheap and pitchers like Miz are healthy.
That said, as many of us predicted the return for Skubal was a fraction of the media bs put out there the last few months. And for what he went for, I think they probably should've done it. However, you're also hearing stuff that he wanted LA because he knows he's signing there anyway, so do you want to take on a kind of unhappy person not totally motivated to give it all for you, comes into the equation.
I also only learned this weekend that besides the normal lack of revenue sharing in MLB with TV deals, the Dodgers get an even further exception to not share due to something put in by bankruptcy court when they got sold. And there is really nothing MLB can do about it because it was done by the courts. What a farce it all is.
ETA: also Phillies will be as good as done in 2-3 years