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The Pirates announced Wednesday on social media that they are calling up right-hander Paul Skenes, the organization's top pitching prospect and a top-10 prospect across all of MLB. 5.11.24 pic ...
While Statcast registers the pitch as a splitter, both Koch and Skenes tend to call it a sinker. The grip Skenes uses for it is something of a hybrid between the two .
Paul Skenes is off to The Show.. The former LSU Tigers baseball star pitcher and No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft is getting called up to the big leagues by the Pittsburgh Pirates, the ...
Paul David Skenes (/ s k iː n z /, born May 29, 2002) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2024. He made his MLB debut in 2024.
Skenes pitched four innings, giving up three runs and scattering six hits, while throwing a total of 84 pitches. Those numbers belie some of his electric stuff, as he struck out seven batters and ...
But for Paul Skenes, and for Paul Skenes only, the sun shined in Pittsburgh. ... But 90 minutes before game time, the downpour stopped. ... Fans and prognosticators alike pined for a call-up.
Skenes unfurled his 6-foot-6 frame and with his funky delivery fired a 101 mph fastball to Trautman that plate umpire Paul Clemons called a ball. Six pitches later, Trautman was walking back to the dugout after swinging at another fastball — 100.9 mph this time — that he tipped into catcher Yasmani Grandal's mitt for Skenes' first strikeout.
In the end, it was Paul Skenes' time to shine. The Pittsburgh Pirates rookie pitcher and No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft hit 102 mph on the radar gun and got the best of a pair of former No. 1 picks ...