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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