Wheeler vs. Skenes: A Tight Race for NL Cy Young Award

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00:00zach wheeler also starting yesterday for philadelphia the fightings ace he delivers 10

00:05strikeouts and the phillies do walk it off in extras for a win as well zach wheeler 239 era

00:13a nine and three record this year paul skeins a 191 era that's the best in baseball win number

00:22five yesterday for skein five and eight record and as you see drs and what has become a two-guy

00:29race for the national league cy young award we are now deadlocked minus 110 on both sides for wheeler

00:35and skeins probably where it should be two really good pitchers pitching really well at this point

00:41in the season it is going to come down and sway it's going to take like it's to say skeins goes

00:45seven innings pitch four earned runs wheeler goes seven innings pitch three earned runs oh look you're

00:50going to get a slight bump there for zach wheeler that's what it's going to be on a day-to-day the

00:53one thing we don't know though heading down the stretch or at least uncertainty is if skeins is

00:57going to go all the way through the month of september with a dead baseball what's the point

01:00in that risk getting injury and just saving those bullets in his arm but also at the same time zach

01:05wheeler pitching in a possible pennant race here and needing those clutch games down the stretch

01:10where if you're facing the mets or you're facing a team in a division like the atlanta braves or even

01:14the los angeles dodgers let's just say late in the season and you have a big win against them

01:18that is going to propel him above paul skeins who let you say he's pitching against a team like the

01:22miami marlins late in the season that doesn't really move the needle as much or have as much

01:26eyeballs focused on that both of these guys right now worthy of the cy young but it'll be interesting

01:31to see the extra curriculars down the stretch if that bump goes to zach wheeler because the one

01:35thing i could tell you unless it's an injury not shutting zach wheeler down the final two weeks of

01:39the season right might shut paul skeins down the final two weeks of the season by the way let me ask

01:43you this question too let's just say skeins is having a great season do you let him pitch all the way

01:48through september because you know you're never going to win anything at least you can sell your fan base

01:52you have a cy young award-winning pitcher or do you say hey paul fantastic job we need you for

01:57next year maybe we'll make a push again and keep you healthy like what do you think happens there