Paul Skenes is arguably the best pitcher in the league even after a rough start on Opening Day to the New York Mets. So it should be no surprise that teams would have interest in the former Cy Young winner, especially teams with a lot of money like the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
Skenes is under contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates through the 2029 season. However, that reportedly didn\u2019t stop the New York Yankees from pursuing him as early as last season.<\/p>\n
Jon Heyman of the New York Post reported Thursday that New York \u201ctried for Skenes at the deadline but were shut down so quickly the Pirates didn\u2019t even listen to the offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Heyman said a deal might have included a combo of Cam Schlitter, Carlos Lagrange, George Lombard Jr, and Spencer Jones. The Bucs disliked the offer and never called the Yankees back.<\/p>\n
If the rumors are true, those are some of the Yankees\u2019 top prospects, but it makes sense for Pittsburgh to not entertain that trade. Skenes is an already proven ace in the league, and he is still young with plenty of years ahead of him.<\/p>\n
We have seen the Pirates make trades like this in the past, and they have not paid off. A lot of times, the prospects don\u2019t pan out, and the last thing fans in Pittsburgh want is to trade their best player for a bunch of busted prospects.<\/p>\n
While Heyman reported the Pirates have \u201cno intention to trade Skenes … in the foreseeable future,\u201d he also explained there is \u201clittle hope to sign him long term under current rules since he\u2019ll probably be a $50 million-a-year pitcher assuming a payroll cap isn\u2019t implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n
If there comes a time in the next year or two where Pittsburgh is out of the NL Central race and has no chance of making the postseason and staring at what could be a long rebuild, a package of top-notch prospects could start to look good for the franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes is arguably the best pitcher in the league even after a rough start on Opening Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,4,10,17904,776,64,4297],"class_list":["post-647037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-pirates","tag-pirates-rumors","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-pittsburghpirates"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116302523246134444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647037","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=647037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}