{"id":503687,"date":"2026-01-03T04:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/503687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:43:27","slug":"pirates-paul-skenes-turns-heads-with-new-appearance-in-livvy-dunne-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/503687\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates\u2019 Paul Skenes Turns Heads With New Appearance in Livvy Dunne Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> ace Paul Skenes has a new look for the new year, as his girlfriend, Livvy Dunne, revealed in a social media post Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Skenes, the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, shaved his trademark beard and mustache. If he took the mound tomorrow, Skenes would be clean-shaven for the first time since debuting in 2024.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHappy New Year,\u201d Dunne wrote on her Instagram story, accompanied by a smiling emoji.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear exactly when Skenes shaved. The New Jersey Devils shared photos and video of Skenes and Dunne on X during a Dec. 21 game against the Buffalo Sabres, and Skenes still had his beard and mustache at the time.<\/p>\n

Baseball Fans React to Paul Skenes\u2019 New Appearance<\/p>\n

Skenes is coming off a brilliant 2025 season in which he recorded a 1.97 ERA and a 216-42 strikeout-to-walk ratio across 187\u2154 innings. His 7.7 bWAR ranked fourth among all pitchers, trailing only Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> left-hander Cristopher S\u00e1nchez (8.0).<\/p>\n

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\u201cClean-shaven Skenes is throwing more people off than his fastball ever did,\u201d one X user quipped. \u201cNew year, new look, same nightmare for hitters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another added, \u201cOh no! That weird \u201970s stache was his superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was also no shortage of jokes<\/a> suggesting Skenes shaved in preparation for a future stint with the New York Yankees<\/a>, who enforced a long-standing facial-hair policy for more than 50 years before rescinding it ahead of the 2025 season. Several players \u2014 including All-Star left-hander Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/a> and reliever Devin Williams<\/a> \u2014 quickly took advantage.<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Skenes in 2025Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cNo facial hair for Paul Skenes makes him look 5\u201310 years younger,\u201d wrote<\/a> 93.7 The Fan (Pittsburgh) producer and host Austin Bechtold.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very good-looking with this look,\u201d a Pirates fan replied to Bechtold, \u201cbut he needs the beard for a bad-ass aura on the mound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whether Skenes truly needs facial hair to continue carving through opposing lineups remains to be seen. The dominant right-hander became just the third pitcher in MLB<\/a> history to win Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award within the first two seasons of his career, joining former Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> star Fernando Valenzuela (both awards in 1981) and New York Mets<\/a> legend Dwight Gooden (Rookie of the Year in 1984, Cy Young in 1985).<\/p>\n

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According to MLB Advanced Media<\/a>, Skenes\u2019 1.96 career ERA is the lowest through 55 starts by any pitcher in the Live Ball Era (since 1920). Skenes and the Pirates open the 2026 season on March 26 against Juan Soto<\/a> and the New York Mets at Citi Field.<\/p>\n

Related: Braves\u2019 Ronald Acuna Jr. Predicted to Make MLB History in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Anthony Volpe Injury Update Emerges Amid Yankees Offseason<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jan 2, 2026, where it first appeared in the MLB<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes has a new look for the new year, as his girlfriend, Livvy Dunne,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,66853,22381,2004,9288,83,134,10150,57,4,16898,61,62,877,25,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":["post-503687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-beard-and-mustache","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-cy-young-award","tag-devin-williams","tag-juan-soto","tag-livvy-dunne","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-paul-skenes","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-pirates","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115829342857048067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}