Unlikely Pairing: Skenes and Yamamoto – A Bet You Can't Miss
I’m extremely curious, more so than even about line making, about how the Pirates plan to build around Paul Skenes. This isn’t the first time the club has had a superstar in their rotation. They had Gerrit Cole and let him walk. They also never really fielded a winning team around Cole. They’ve had some decent players and some guys that never lived up to the hype, but so has every other team. You now have a generational talent and you’re either going to let him walk after his rookie contract, or you need to invest in the team and see what they can do. It will be in interesting. Skenes has been as good as advertised since joining the big league club. He is 2-2 this season with a 2.87 ERA and a 0.80 WHIP. He also has 30 strikeouts in 31.1 innings. Dodgers hitters have been okay against Skenes, holding a .250 average against him. Shohei Ohtani has homered off of him.
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