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00:00I'll tell you who else is interesting in that division. It's the Pittsburgh Pirates for sure, and that always starts and stops with Paul Skeen's
00:05electricity last year, to say the least, out of him. Now you're gonna get a full season. We'll see how high he can ramp those strikeouts up.
00:12In a shortened season, 170 strikeouts. 200-plus should be the benchmark for him, and see how high he can soar over that.
00:20One of the best young pitchers in baseball leads that pitching staff with some question marks.
00:24Look at some of the statistics, Tom, from last year. Keller's ERA, 425. Heaney, 428. Falter, 443.
00:30Mlodzinski, 338 at that point. So other guys are gonna have to step up, but it starts and finishes with Skeen's.
00:37He's so much fun. Your projection for Skeen's this year, what is it?
00:42So I want to be very clear about this. Paul Skeen's is awesome. He is gonna, like you said, go for 200-plus strikeouts, whatever it might be.
00:50There will be value in betting Paul Skeen's unders on a start-to-start basis because there's going to be so much public money forcing the overs.
00:58So at a certain point, we're gonna have to find that point of resistance in the market where 8.5 lines, which we realistically could see for him,
01:05there's gonna be value in taking the under. And it's not to say that I don't think Paul Skeen's is good. He's awesome.
01:09He's going to be a Cy Young candidate every year, but again, we have to look at the market and what we're getting from it.
01:14So there will be times I take Paul Skeen's unders just because the number's too high and I don't want to bet that.
01:19I think the answer for the Pirates in their rotation will be Jared Jones and one of their top prospects, Bubba Chandler.
01:26If he sees, if those two pitchers see a lot of innings, that is what we will get from. That's what will help shape their season.
01:32Their lineup is good. It's okay. We know we're getting from Skeen's, but those other two pitchers, Jared Jones and Bubba Chandler,
01:38that's what's going to determine what the Pirates do this year.