NL Rookie of the Year Odds: Skenes Closing in on Imanaga

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00:00Now we look at the NL Rookie of the Year odds, where Skeens has

00:07grown closer and closer to Shota Iminaga for the Chicago Cubs,

00:11plus 105. Iminaga is still the favorite, but if Skeens pitches

00:15this way the rest of the summer, depending on how long that

00:19leash is, that the Buccos have him on. You gotta think with the

00:23narrative and the notoriety that Paul Skeens is going to win this

00:27award when all is said and done. Yeah, he's riding a rocket ship

00:30right now. There's some really good names out there, too. Mason

00:32Wynn has been very, very good for the Cardinals this season.

00:35Same thing with Jackson Merrill. Every time I look up on my app

00:37here for the San Diego Padres, it feels like he's factoring with

00:40a home run, Endor, and RBI. Then you still have Jared Jones, a

00:42young pitcher there on the same staff as Pittsburgh, but I do

00:45think I agree. Iminaga and Skeens coming down the stretch

00:48are going to make the difference, but you're right

00:49about this. It's just a matter of how long you want to pitch

00:52Paul Skeens, because in the grand scheme of things, you're

00:55not looking at Paul Skeens and saying, boy, we have to get him

00:57this rookie of the year trophy and maybe put an extra 20 to 30

01:01innings on his arm at the end of the year when maybe the

01:03Pittsburgh Pirates aren't even playoff eligible at that point.

01:06We'll see how this one plays out, but that's it. Show to

01:08Imanaga I don't think is ever going to get shut down

01:10throughout the season for the Cubs, regardless of record.

01:12There's a really good chance Paul Skeens does that, and just

01:14to bring back a few short years ago, Jacob DeGrom was having

01:17one of those seasons for the New York Mets that you thought

01:19he might wind up with a one or less than one ERA. He got

01:22injured, and Kevin, I used to joke about this saying, you

01:24know what? We didn't know he's going to get injured. He could

01:27probably get injured in August and still walk away with the

01:29Cy Young Endor MVP. Well, he did get injured in like two

01:32weeks. He wasn't even on the board anymore, and nobody

01:34cared about it. So you can't say like, hey, as long as

01:36Skeens is really dominant through August and then misses

01:38his final five to six starts, he won't win rookie of the year

01:41at that point, no matter how dominant he is. He can't get

01:44shut down to win that award, but I think your point's valid.

01:46If he doesn't, he's probably going to win it.