Paul Skenes

[rburgh]

In real life he's perfect through 6 with 79 pitches. Pirates are up 4-0. How long do you let Paul go? If he finishes out the game he'll likely end up throwing about 120 pitches.

[rburgh]

Finished the inning at 93 pitches, the pen completed the shutout. Konnor Griffin homered on his 20th birthday, and followed with two more singles and 2 more RBI. I guess it's true that 20 year-olds hit better than 19 year olds.

[MitchU]

Originally Posted by rburgh

In real life he's perfect through 6 with 79 pitches. Pirates are up 4-0. How long do you let Paul go? If he finishes out the game he'll likely end up throwing about 120 pitches.

That's easy...you let him go until he gives up a hit or multiple walks, having the bullpen warmed and ready to go.

[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.

[LloydLungs]

Originally Posted by 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.

Stephen Strasburg was VERY tightly controlled. To the point where the Nationals pulled the plug on him with no injury, and held him out of the playoffs one year, simply because of an innings limit.