Skenes’ Bold Move Against Twinkies Could Change the Pirates’ Fate Forever
There has to be a rule in sports that says if you don’t make the playoffs in a certain number of years, you are required to sell the team. I’ve floated this idea before, but it keeps coming back into my head when I think about the Pirates. They are almost 20 games under .500 at this point in the season, and they are 23 games below on the road. This team has struggled in a number of ways, but none more than the offense – I’m talking about just this year, too. Let’s ignore the past decade. The team is hitting just .230 for the season, and they are averaging just 3.4 runs per game. They also only have 64 home runs for the year. Their pitching is very good – 3.68 ERA and a team WHIP of just 1.20 – those are playoff numbers. If the Pirates want to jumpstart a rebuild or figure something out, the could send waves in the baseball universe by trading away today’s starter, Paul Skenes. He is arguably the best asset in baseball outside of Shohei Ohtani. He is young, under team control, and has been unreal this year. He is 4-7 for the season with a 1.94 ERA and a 0.92 WHIP. He has also struck out 125 hitters in 116 innings. Sure, pitchers get injured, but this guy should get a haul if they decide to trade him (they will eventually lose him for nothing). They could trade other players, but then they are wasting their chances of Skenes value years. He has five at-bats against him from Twins hitters – just Harrison Bader and Ty France. Collectively, they are 1-for-5 with four strikeouts.Â
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