If you’ve recently attended a Major League Baseball game, you might have noticed one of the umpires examining the hands and hats of the teams’ pitchers for foreign substances or other irregularities as they enter and leave the mound area. They might need to start checking one pitcher for something else–a flamethrower.
Pirates rookie pitcher Paul Skenes made his second-ever starting appearance in the major leagues against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on Friday. He put on quite a show.
As I’ve written previously in these pages, Skenes is just the latest in a string of recent phenoms in the MLB: young players with a belly full of fire and freak-level talent, including Los Angeles Dodgers’ double-threat Shohei Otani and the Cincinnati Reds’ multi-base marauder, Elly De La Cruz.
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