Paul Skenes's Future: Predicted Return to Top Form

Yeah, like I said, I think you just have to wait until the end of the season. I promise you that Paul Skeens is going to be a beast again next year. They're going to figure it out. They're going to get him on the right workout, whatever it needs to be. A lot of weight, no weight, arm slot, no arm slot, whatever's going on, Joe. I've attended, I don't know how many games this season. Let's see. So I've attended probably, I mean, I'm doing a total of 70 games, 70 games at the end of the season. And I went to two in Tampa Bay. I'm going to end up close to a hundred games this season. So I've seen it all. Okay. You can't fix a pitcher in a month. You can't do it. It takes, for a pitcher like that, it takes time. Can you make some little tweaks along the way? Sure. But physically you just can't change a guy. They asked him probably to be somebody else than what he is right now. And it's obviously affected him. And he's going to be a Cy Young Award candidate next year. He's going to be a superstar. He's going to be back, but they're going to sit down. They're going to go through the video. They're going to go through his workouts. They're going to find the smartest guy in the world to fix Paul Skeens. And he's going to get fixed. I'm not concerned whatsoever with him. But as we've discussed, if you think that just magically next week, he's going to throw eight innings, one run, strikeout 10. That's not happening. Now it doesn't mean by the way, that Skeens is a pitcher on the Rockies or the A's. He's still probably going to give you five innings of three run ball and occasionally six or seven of two run ball. Yes. He's just not, it doesn't appear he's going to dominate like Bubba Chandler or, uh, or Brandon Ash, Braxton Ashcraft, who's just amazing. It doesn't appear that he's going to be one of those guys for the rest of the year. So they did win today. So good for them. The pirates Joe, somehow, or like, you know, it feels like the rope is about to be cut, you know, and then they grabbed the rope and then they're back in again, you know, so they're barely, barely still alive.