Should the Pirates Trade Paul Skenes Before the Deadline?

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00:00let's talk about one of the greatest young arms in major league baseball at this moment

00:04of course that is paul skeins a 244 era so far this season and year number two his first full

00:11year with the buckos in the bigs 62 strikeouts 62 and two-thirds in 10 starts the pirates as a team

00:20are three and seven because the team around paul skeins not very good especially offensively boy

00:27they cannot hit now 24 consecutive games as they got beat by the reds yesterday at pnc park by the

00:33way 7-1 24 straight games the buckos have scored fewer than five runs and yet despite how his team

00:42is failing him paul skein still the favorite to win national league cy young at a plus 200 number

00:48after winning rookie of the year around the nl a season ago here is the question buy or sell

00:56the pirates should trade paul skeins this season i bought well i buy it most people will buy it

01:06fans around the major league baseball should absolutely buy it the organization will sell

01:10it by going no wait a second we probably got at least six more years out of this guy really cheap

01:14let's use them up burn them out and trade them at the deadline before we actually have to pay him

01:19here but for the good of major league baseball and for the good of the pitchers in major league baseball

01:23that are coming up absolutely this should happen understand this like the perspective is different

01:28like if you're the number one overall draft pick in major league baseball and you are a left fielder

01:33you say you know what i don't mind going to pittsburgh there because i'm going to hone my skills i'll get

01:37brought up to major league baseball and by the time i'm 25 years old i'll probably be a free agent i'll

01:41be able to make a lot of money around there because that's right in the middle of your prime you might

01:45argue that well donnie isn't that the same thing for the pitcher 25 26 years old in their prime yes

01:50but if i'm throwing 200 plus innings from the time i'm 21 or 22 through 26 and got nothing out of it

01:57yeah i might have got some awards for the cy young that's great but you are pitching and using your

02:02bullets there in your arm in hopes that you will be pitching into october which is always the goal

02:07to win a championship the goal in pittsburgh is not to win a championship the goal in pittsburgh is not

02:13to even win baseball games the goal in pittsburgh is just to say i'm an owner how much money can i steal

02:19and laugh at my fan base by not giving them anything to cheer about but we'll be rewarded

02:24because we're bad every year with high draft picks that we can turn into draft capital never win

02:29anything and keep the cycle going on and on and on can you imagine paul schemes right now as young as

02:35he is pitching for let's just say the new york yankees the philadelphia phillies the los angeles

02:40dodgers the chicago cubs any team out there that gives any damn worth of winning and is willing to spend

02:46money here of how much fun paul schemes would be it's the same thing ben we talk about with mike

02:51trout mike trout was thought of as maybe going down as the single best baseball player in the history

02:57of baseball but now he's injured and we understand that but the reason i'm going is wouldn't mike

03:01trout have been so much fun getting a decade plus every year in the playoffs to watch the best player

03:06on the biggest age we never got to see that and apparently like maybe paul schemes cares more

03:10because he's saying like he wants to win mike trout seeming like finally hey man keep me out of

03:15the spotlight pay me all this money i don't want to do any commercials for major league baseball or

03:18promote the sport and maybe that's just the way he is but we're getting robbed of seeing great

03:22players can you imagine ben back in the 1980s into the early 1990s where the chicago bulls never paid

03:30any money for the rest of their payroll and their team here and michael jordan never made the playoffs

03:35how much will be robbed i'm not saying skeins is michael jordan but you get the point i'm trying to make

03:40we want to watch the best players at their position in the biggest moments and with pittsburgh he's

03:46never going to get a single moment there to do that that's a shame absolutely they should move

03:52and for the good of major league baseball

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