Pitching Prodigy Paul Skenes: A Closer Look at His Impact

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00:00 [upbeat music]

00:03 - Talking about Paul Skeens now.

00:04 For those that don't know,

00:05 this is the darling down in the minors,

00:07 throwing over a hundred.

00:09 I mean, if he's throwing a hundred pitchers,

00:11 what's his ratio hang out to?

00:13 I think about 83 of them are flirting near,

00:15 are at a hundred or over.

00:18 We are lauding this.

00:19 We are lionizing it.

00:21 Joe, I'm asking the question straight away

00:23 and I hate to use it this way,

00:24 but what happens when the kid's arm falls off?

00:27 Everyone goes, "Oh, okay."

00:28 And they go on to the next thing.

00:29 We're sending such a mixed message.

00:31 All the social media is great.

00:33 He's a great kid.

00:33 He stayed after his start and stayed and signed autographs

00:36 for every single person in the line.

00:39 There's a minor league guy who's got,

00:40 "Yeah, take the bus, not get on a luxury plane."

00:43 He did that.

00:44 So the point I'm trying to make is,

00:46 Skeens is great.

00:46 Yeah, Adam, wonderful.

00:47 But there's a bigger question.

00:49 A bigger conversation needs to be had.

00:50 Time is yours.

00:52 - Yeah, look, Skeens this year,

00:54 I continued at the beginning of the year.

00:56 I said, "Look, think of him in season-long Roto Leagues

00:58 as the Strasburg debut, right?"

01:00 You had about 70 amazing innings for Strasburg

01:02 and you'll take them this year.

01:04 But you'll take them in that context

01:06 of a season-long Roto League.

01:07 If you're in a head-to-head format in a redraft league

01:09 and you have Skeens, when he gets called up,

01:12 his value will be at its peak.

01:14 And you have to understand, he's gonna be managed.

01:15 I mean, he's being managed right now very carefully,

01:18 which we could talk about that for days,

01:20 whether that's a good thing or not.

01:22 65 pitches in his last start, 37 were strikes,

01:25 34 of them, by the way, were over a hundred miles an hour.

01:29 So that is a stunning number.

01:32 And you look at the numbers so far,

01:33 he hasn't given up an earned run all year or a run.

01:37 The whip is at 0.71.

01:39 Over 12 innings, he has 27 strikeouts.

01:41 He is dominating.

01:42 There is obviously nothing for him to prove

01:44 at the AAA level.

01:44 So he's gonna be up in Pittsburgh

01:46 for a certain amount of time, but for how long?

01:47 So if you're in head-to-head leagues

01:49 and he's being limited as great as he is,

01:51 what's it gonna look like in August and September?

01:53 What's it gonna look like in your fantasy playoffs?

01:54 Those are questions you have to ask yourself.

01:56 And if you can flip a Skeens

01:58 for a mid to upper tier 1A kind of pitcher,

02:02 you should think about that in redraft leagues,

02:04 because those guys might be there in September,

02:06 Skeens will not.

02:08 (upbeat music)

02:10 (bells chiming)

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