“Paul Skenes is the most dominant pitcher I’ve seen in my lifetime of watching baseball”

Skenes oozes confidence and dominance

At the college level I think that is a fact. Every other arm at Skene’s talent level went pro out of high school.

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PM be meddlin.

how does his arm not just come apart? frickin machine

Going out on a limb huh?

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So you don’t think he’s right?

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Nope. That discounts Clemens, Carlton, Ryan, Johnson, all the pitchers today. I mean context man. At LSU? Until recently he couldn’t locate a change or keep his breaking ball in the zone long enough. Look at the difference the last month in pitch count for FB versus other pitches.

Keith Law on Skenes…

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Skenes has gone from sitting 92-95 mph with an above-average slider to becoming the hardest-throwing starting pitching prospect I’ve ever seen,

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“Ever” is a pretty strong statement

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There is nobody close to Skenes among pitchers in this class, and the fact that he throws strikes with this kind of stuff, even if you only give him credit for being 96-99 mph, would make him 1-1 in most years. Stephen Strasburg and Gerrit Cole would top out at 100 mph, with better breaking stuff than Skenes, and they went 1-1. Mark Appel had less stuff and he went first overall, as well. I think it’s fair to project a No. 1 starter ceiling for Skenes with some projection to the changeup and the obvious hope that he stays healthy, which some guys have with this kind of stuff (Cole and Justin Verlander come to mind as comparable pitchers).

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