Two outings into his big league career, the Pirates' young ace is the talk of baseball. Here's what those who have witnessed him firsthand have to say.
The two were playing together on the United States 12U national team, in Mazatlan, Mexico, in 2014, well before Skenes would become baseball's biggest pitching phenom. Crow-Armstrong pitched in the tournament, but Skenes never took the mound.Over the first 10 innings of Skenes' major league career, Crow-Armstrong and the Cubs got a firsthand view at just how much.
Skenes struck out the first seven batters he faced. He finished the day with 11 strikeouts over six hitless innings, setting a franchise mark for the most K's by a Pirates pitcher at Wrigley Field, one of the game's most iconic venues.Any thought that the Cubs would have an advantage seeing the same pitcher within a week were erased with every eye-popping pitch. Skenes averaged an incredible 99.3 mph on his fastball, 94.8 on his splitter, 86.
"It tunnels well off his fastball. It has enough of a similar look off his hand," Tauchman said."It has more run and drop than his fastball does." "Being able to limit the top for him or limit the bottom is going to be very important because his stuff plays really well at both levels," Crow-Armstrong said."Anything that runs 18 inches at 100 mph is pretty tough."
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