[pgjocki]

Putting emotions aside the Pirates need to treat Skenes on a very tightly controlled schedule to prevent him from being the next Steephen Strasburg. You don't sacrafice a guys career just to go for a no hitter or shut-out in a meaningless game and you make sure he's ready for long sustained playoff runs.

If you're not going to build a team around him then you maximize his time with "good enough" players, make sure you manipulate the schedule to get more home starts than road starts for him, run promo's to bring out the fans and you trade him for the GPD of a small country before he becomes a Free Agent.