On his daily First 10 podcast, Post-Gazette sports columnist Jason Mackey reaction to Arizona Diamondbacks and National League manager Torey Lovullo’s comments about Pirates star Paul Skenes. Is Lovullo hinting that Skenes is the obvious choice to start for the NL in the MLB All-Star game? Who are the other possible candidates? And how much should the hype around Skenes league-wide influence the decision?
Jason tackles those topics, plus the question of whether it’s already time for owner Bob Nutting and GM Ben Cherington to consider giving Skenes and extension. Then he analyzes the potential for Penguins defensemen Erik Karlsson and Ryan Graves to bounce back after difficult first years wit the club.
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I’ve been to 2 Skenes pitched games. His jerseys and t shirts with him were selling like hotcakes. They have to see the money he is generating!!
Skenes should be the medicine that cures Nutting of miserosis.
Skenes should also be the medicine that cures MLB in general of their curious and self inflicted inability to market the fun stuff instead of constantly pushing the extremely boring and irrelevent babip fib flubber stats. Baseball happens between the lines not behind the scenes.
115 mil 7 yrs. Skenes would only be 29 at the end at which point he gets his 350ish million contract from the highest bidder.
I hope Topps is smart enough to get Nolan Ryan and Skenes on a card together at the series.
10 years 250 million…call it a day…win championships….
8 years, $200 million. The Pirates get two free agent years. He gets his record setting deal with the Dodgers at 30. Everybody wins.
It would be nice to see him start considering management has essentially given up on this season.
Did anyone read Jason's hilarious and fantasy article this morning that the Pirates should make Skenes an offer he could not refuse, something in the range of $175-$250 million? There is no way Nutting would even think for a nano second to give out that kind of contract. Skenes all star appearance will be a showcase for any team willing to trade a bunch of minor leaguers who will never see the major leagues for a generational talent in 2027. That is when Skenes will have to be traded. He won't make it to when he becomes free agent year before the Pirates will have to deal him. They will be forced to deal him as soon as he reaches his arbitration years because Nutting either won't be able to afford him or he would be unwilling to pay Skenes what he is worth.