Paul Skenes Tops NL Cy Young Odds: Could He Capture the Award?

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00:00very short favorite to win National League Cy Young Award.

00:03That's Paul Skeens entering year number two

00:05of his Major League Baseball career.

00:08A two to one price.

00:10He is a third of everybody else around the National League

00:14and then some.

00:15Last year's reigning National League Cy Young winner

00:18on your screen right there, Chris Sale in Atlanta.

00:20A 13 to one price sandwiched in between.

00:23Zach Wheeler in Philly.

00:25Blake Snell plus 8.50 now with the Dodgers.

00:28Is Skeens getting a tad too much respect?

00:32Is his number a little bit too short to win Cy Young?

00:36I don't think so.

00:37Like you saw how electric he was last year.

00:39So the expectation is coming back

00:40maybe even a little bit bigger and a little bit stronger

00:42and understand how to pitch in Major League Baseball.

00:44That's gonna be a fun season.

00:46But again, it's a power pitcher.

00:48It's a two to one price.

00:49Injuries do happen.

00:50You wanna tie that money up here?

00:51But as I talked about the American League,

00:53like, hey man, where'd all the superstars go?

00:55Yeah, they all found themselves in the National League.

00:57Skeens, Wheeler, Snell, Sale, Burns, Yamamoto,

01:00King, Cease, Gallon, Glasnow.

01:02Like you got Spencer Strider who's coming back this year

01:05at a 30 to one.

01:05If he was never injured, he's probably a minted

01:08maybe Cy Young from even last year alone at this point.

01:10And even sort of sliding it down,

01:12like the Sonny Grays and the Hunter Greens,

01:14a lot of power pitchers here on there.

01:16But if you are saying, Donnie,

01:17plus 100 prices across the board,

01:19who do you think is gonna win the Cy Young?

01:20Why wouldn't it be Paul Skeens?

01:22Like every time out you expect eight, nine, 10, 11, 12

01:25strikeouts plus.

01:26And also he is a younger pitcher.

01:28So when you look at maybe a Zach Wheeler,

01:30who is phenomenal by every stretch,

01:32maybe the best free agent signing,

01:34which includes Bryce Harper in the history

01:36of Phillies baseball,

01:37he's been nothing short of sensational,

01:39but he is getting a little bit older as well.

01:41Blake Snell, how's he gonna hold up being a Dodger?

01:43Because quite frankly, is Blake Snell

01:45even gonna lose a baseball game

01:46if he doesn't go to South Town today?

01:47Snell's on the mound today with a full lineup behind him.

01:50How does he lose any games?

01:51Particularly being in a pitcher's ballpark in Los Angeles,

01:54which also means that pitcher's ballpark

01:56up in San Francisco,

01:57we're gonna play so many of your games there

01:59this year, both home and away.

02:01There are a lot of different,

02:01the one guy I'm not gonna take to be honest is Chris Sale.

02:04I don't wanna say it was a lightning in a bottle season

02:06where he caught some of that flashback from five years ago

02:08when he was more dominant pitchers in baseball.

02:10But if there's one guy I'm not betting, let's just say,

02:12in the first 10 spots here on the FanDuel Sportsbook,

02:15it's not gonna be Chris Sale again, to be honest.

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