Tarik Skubal didn't get a lot of sleep the last two nights as he mulled whether to pitch again for the United States in the World Baseball Classic.

In the end, the Detroit Tigers ace and reigning two-time AL Cy Young Award winner decided against it.

"My spring training start days were scripted out in January with the original plan being starting and then being done," Skubal said. "And obviously when I got here my emotions kind of changed a little bit, my thought process changed a little bit and tried to make it work but just couldn't. And I hate it, but it's all right."