Paul Skenes' Historic No-Hitter: A New Baseball Legend
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00:03 Skeen strikes out, if I'm not mistaken, the first six batters yesterday of the game against the Cubs.
00:08 May have been seven actually.
00:10 Went on to throw a no-hitter and then was taken out of the game.
00:15 And he did this against the same team that he faced the first time out,
00:19 which makes it even more impressive.
00:20 The Cubs hitters knew a little bit what to expect out of him.
00:23 From a dynasty perspective, it's historic in a way that I don't know that you could put a good
00:31 trade together where I would give up Paul Skeens.
00:34 Like, I rarely say that.
00:36 I'm always like a sell-high guy, get as much as you can.
00:38 But I just don't know about this guy, Davis.
00:41 Like, this seems to me to be the next generational, you know, Strasburg at the time,
00:48 Pedro Martinez maybe at the time when he was going through it.
00:51 I just don't recall seeing anything like this in a while.
00:54 So I'm going to hold on to Paul Skeens for a bit.
00:57 Well, I mean, don't let me rain on your parade as it pertains to Paul Skeens and dynasty.
01:05 But what I would say is if you could use Paul Skeens to acquire one of the greatest hitters
01:10 in baseball.
01:10 So if you could get Otani, Acuna, I mean, Judge is probably getting up there,
01:15 so probably not as much.
01:17 Aaron Judge, Kyle Tucker.
01:19 I mean, I would tell you right now, I would 100% do that because what do we know about
01:23 starting pitchers in baseball?
01:25 Like, there is no such thing as a pitching prospect, right?
01:30 That's the real old baseball saying, which is just highlights the variance in these guys.
01:34 Not that Paul Skeens is not going to be incredible every time he's available for the next decade.
01:39 But if you let me bet right now, even money both ways, will Paul Skeens miss a year of
01:45 his career due to injury at some time over the next 10 years?
01:48 I would take it.
01:49 I would stone cold take that money.
01:51 He was awesome to watch.
01:53 I thought something that must have been rather frustrating for him personally would have
01:57 been how many times at LSU do you think Paul Skeens went 140 pitches in a game?
02:04 You know, just because that's just what you do in college baseball.
02:07 He's got a no hitter going.
02:09 He's at 100 pitches.
02:11 I mean, he's probably tired, but I bet he's not like all my arms falling off.
02:15 I got to get out of here.
02:16 That must have been just a little bit internally frustrating for him, but he was unbelievable.
02:23 I mean, I've been saying this to Pharrell, who wants to talk to me about Paul Skeens
02:26 every single day on Pharrell Coast to Coast.
02:29 I was like, there's a chance Paul Skeens gets called up from AAA and is immediately
02:34 the best pitcher in baseball.
02:35 Because right now with the pitcher injuries, if someone asked you who is the best pitcher
02:40 in baseball right now, you'd have to think about it a little bit.
02:43 There's not like an automatic answer to who the best guy is in baseball.
02:47 And I think there's a non-zero chance at Skeen.
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