Paul Skenes' Discontent with the Pittsburgh Pirates

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00:00When I watch Paul Skeens throw a complete game and lose 1-0,

00:04and I see his face on the mound and after the game in the locker room

00:10doing interviews, that guy looks like he wants to run away to Canada

00:15and live in the woods.

00:17I mean, he just looks so miserable playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

00:21Like, he is one unhappy-looking dude, if you ask me.

00:23I don't care what his contract says.

00:26I don't care about his future because he has no future there.

00:31I mean, they just have screwed him up from the beginning,

00:36and he just looks so unhappy to me.

00:38It's not even funny.

00:39Well, I don't think there's much doubt that he is.

00:42The first year, I don't agree with the from the beginning part

00:46because when they got him out there,

00:49they had a pretty good top end of their starting rotation,

00:52obviously led by him, but then Jared Jones, Mitch Keller.

00:55It's a pretty good top end of the rotation if they're all healthy.

00:59Now Jared Jones is injured, hasn't played.

01:02I don't think he's thrown at all this year in a game.

01:06If he has, it was very limited.

01:09So he's been out.

01:11Keller doesn't give any run support as he didn't last night.

01:15It's bad.

01:16But what happened is they went into the offseason with the promise of this high,

01:21of this top end of the rotation, and they did nothing to complement that,

01:26either by bringing in another ace, you know, somebody else to put into the rotation,

01:32or to go out and get a bunch of bats to support what stood up as a promising rotation.

01:39All of that is what frustrates a player like Skeens.

01:44Again, as I said, this is not easy for a team like the Pirates.

01:47They could certainly do better than they do,

01:49but it's not easy because everything is stacked against them.

01:53But you can do better than they have on the field,

01:57and you can do much better than they have off the field.

01:59You can do better than they have on the field.