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00:00Skenes is going for the Pirates tonight Joe we'll get to that in a little bit
00:07but what is starting to worry me is is that he is losing steam on this NL
00:13rookie of the year I need him to start throwing some big performances like can
00:17I get six or seven shutout innings from Paul Skenes tonight Jack this Jackson
00:22Merrill on San Diego Joe look at these numbers he is absolutely flown from out
00:27of nowhere I mean Skenes was where was it last week he was 400 then on Monday
00:33it was three now he's down to that Merrill's passed him minus 130 he's
00:38favored now I think Skenes a month ago around the all-star game Joe what was he
00:43like minus 1,500 he was right I mean he was a huge favorite I got him in that
00:48ticket Skenes rookie judge MVP school bulls I young and I feel like Joe I'm
00:54losing my grasp on that by the day as this this Merrill needs to cool off a
00:59little bit and Skenes needs to get me a couple good outings this Merrill is
01:04drafting like cold trickle back in the day it was just Ryan he was he was what
01:08was it back drafting he could back draft into position it was just allowing
01:14Skenes to punch himself out that's the problem when you bet these markets and
01:19you have such a dominating first half right all-star performance and then it's
01:25like okay how do you duplicate that in regards to any of the second half right
01:29any type of regression and the books all of a sudden readjust and that opens the
01:34door sometimes for a player like Jackson Merrill especially with the fact now
01:39that San Diego's what two and a half three and a half back of the Dodgers
01:43well Ryan and I and I think Joe that that's something that plays into it and
01:47sometimes you look at those boards right you look at those markets you look
01:50at those numbers and they're so so prevalent on what's right now right like
01:57when you look at a month ago and Skenes is starting the all-star game as a
02:02rookie you know the Pirates were actually playing pretty well they were
02:06in the mix you know game out of the wild card doing well Merrill was playing okay
02:11but then you go the next month Padres red hot Merrill hitting game tying
02:16homers in the ninth making huge catches doing it he's the guy in everyone's
02:21mind right now so that's why suddenly things start to change and I think it'll
02:26change again it could change again Joe over these last six weeks at least I
02:29hope it does but the Pirates are now going to be playing aside from the games
02:35that Skenes pitches really insignificant meaningless baseball now over the last
02:40six weeks and the same eyeballs aren't going to be there and they might limit
02:44how much he's going to pitch too they might say five innings that's it