{"id":333,"date":"2025-06-02T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/?p=333"},"modified":"2025-06-18T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T13:40:50","slug":"mlb-insider-reveals-what-hes-hearing-about-paul-skenes-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/02\/mlb-insider-reveals-what-hes-hearing-about-paul-skenes-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Insider Reveals What He\u2019s Hearing About Paul Skenes Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Skenes is off to one of the best beginnings to a career for any pitcher in baseball history, as he is 15-8 with a 2.03 ERA and 247 strikeouts through his first 35 starts.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Pittsburgh Pirates would have the worst record in the National League if the Colorado Rockies weren\u2019t playing like a tee-ball team, so it was only a matter of time before trade rumors started to pile on to the turmoil.<\/p>\n

In case the Pirates\u2019 front office publicly shutting down the trade rumors wasn\u2019t enough, ESPN insider Jeff Passan recently echoed those sentiments.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJust to be clear, the Pirates have no intention of trading Paul Skenes at this point,\u201d Passan said, via \u201cSportsCenter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“Just to be clear, the Pirates have no intention of trading Paul Skenes at this point.”@JeffPassan<\/a> clears up Paul Skenes trade rumors on the @PatMcAfeeShow<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/KH9QMMuahs<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Skenes recently turned 23 years old and hasn\u2019t even reached arbitration yet, so a pitcher of his caliber hitting the trade market could fetch one of the largest hauls in history.<\/p>\n

That being said, it would be an impossible sell to an already frustrated fan base if the Pirates traded Skenes, who is one of the few bright spots on this awful team.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh\u2019s issue remains the fact that ownership doesn\u2019t seem to care enough, as the Pirates once again rank near the bottom in payroll, resulting in a bad offense failing to support one of the best starting rotations in baseball.<\/p>\n

The Pirates need to go all in and build around Skenes by supporting him with impact bats, and it\u2019s nice to at least hear that these trade rumors are being shut down immediately, because having him stay in Pittsburgh and potentially lead them back to prominence is the best possible outcome for the game as a whole.<\/p>\n

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(Photo by Christian Petersen\/Getty Images) \u00a0 Paul Skenes is off to one of the best beginnings to a career for any pitcher in baseball history, as he is 15-8 with a 2.03 ERA and 247 strikeouts through his first 35 starts. Unfortunately, the Pittsburgh Pirates would have the worst record in the National League if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automotiveglobe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}