Could Paul Skenes Be Off to Joining the New York Yankees?

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00:00So, the Baseball Writers Association of America, they did the Cy Young yesterday, right?

00:04Yeah.

00:05Paul Skeens won it.

00:06Unanimously.

00:07He's the only guy other than Dwight Dot Gooden to win Rookie of the Year and Cy Young as

00:13a pitcher the very next year.

00:14So, congratulations to future Yankee Paul Skeens.

00:17Yeah, he's definitely playing for you.

00:19Apparently, one of his teammates anonymously told some people, all Paul talks about is

00:24getting traded to the Yankees, and the Yankees are like, we'll take you.

00:28And no disrespect, Mets fans, stop.

00:31I understand you have money.

00:33Nobody's growing up thinking like that.

00:34No.

00:35He doesn't want to go to the Mets.

00:36Paul Skeens did not grow up saying to himself, gosh, I want to be part of an 83-win team that

00:42disappoints their fan base every year.

00:44He wants to play at the Mecca.

00:46He wants to play in the Bronx.

00:47He wants to play at Yankee Stadium.

00:49That's the dream of every little kid.

00:51Every little kid.

00:52I can't speak about Japan or Latin American countries, because maybe there's a different

00:57team that has, you know, like, you want to play for the Pirates because of Clemente.

01:01I totally get that and respect that.

01:02Yeah.

01:03But American kids grow up, and the only team you want to play for is the New York Yankees.

01:09The Phillies.

01:09In the New York Yankees.

01:11All right.

01:12So, yeah.

01:13So, Paul Skeens, the now reigning Cy Young Award winner, told his buddies, man, I can't

01:18wait to win a pinstripes.

01:19And I'm speaking up ahead for the Yankees organization, because I'm allowed to do that

01:23as the radio play-by-play voice of the New York Yankees.

01:26Of a...

01:27Okay.

01:28We'll take it.

01:30Matter of fact, hey, Pittsburgh, pick anybody you want, other than Judge.

01:34Yeah.

01:34You're going to...

01:35Like, I'm trying to think.

01:36Is there a guy...

01:37Keep Judge to the side, obviously.

01:39Yeah.

01:39Is there another dude on the Yankees right now, under contract, that the Yankees would

01:46say, no, you can't have him?

01:48No, absolutely not.

01:49That Pittsburgh would want?

01:50Absolutely not.

01:50Right?

01:51Because Pittsburgh doesn't want Garrett Cole back.

01:53No.

01:53He's at the end of his career, and he makes a lot of money, right?

01:55They don't want Stanton.

01:56Would they take Anthony Volpe?

01:58Maybe.

01:58Young shortstop.

02:00Yeah, but they would need...

02:00Who has a gold glove.

02:01They would need a lot more, though.

02:02Yeah, of course.

02:02I'm going to need your top three prospects.

02:04I'm going to need a lot.

02:05And, like, I'm not a big prospect guy, because baseball's a weird sport when it comes to

02:09prospects.

02:09But Pittsburgh is, because they don't have to pay them.

02:11And I'll give Pittsburgh credit for this.

02:13Pittsburgh develops more stars in Major League Baseball than any team maybe not named Tampa.

02:20Yeah.

02:20And none of them stay beyond their first contract.

02:24None of them.

02:24Like, if they just re-signed their own guys, the Pirates would have won, like, 10 World Series

02:29in the last 15 years.

02:30It could go back longer.

02:31Remember, they could have kept Barry Bonds and Van Slyke and Bonilla back in the day.

02:35They kept none of them.

02:36They've had every great player at some point, Garrett Cole included, at some point was a

02:42pirate farmhand or, like, a rookie or, you know...

02:45The only one they ever paid was McCutcheon.

02:47Ever.

02:47In, like, 100 years.

02:48I'm thinking, on behalf of Yankee fans, like, you could have everybody.

02:52Yeah.

02:52Like, there's no one on the Yankee roster that I wouldn't give you, other than Judge...

02:57Right.

02:57...for...

02:58And they wouldn't want Judge Henry because of his contract, but there's not a...

03:01There's not a single untouchable Yankee.

03:04No.

03:05Right?

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