Paul Skenes' Struggles Analyzed with Velocity & Form

But I gotta ask you you saw Pittsburgh up close and personal. Did you not hear this week? I did and a lot of talk with paul skeens a lot of yeah, once again Oh, I made it five. I I mean, what did what were you seeing? Uh, great with him there Is it just is it a command a mechanics thing? Do you think is there something? Else going on like what what's how did they not win his games? Yeah, well I look I I think there are definitely I I don't want to make too much of velocity because there are definitely pitchers That pitch in the big leagues that top out at 95 the starting pitchers and they succeed like zach wheeler is a good example Of one of those you can throw 95 any day of the week in baseball if you are a good pitcher and succeed skeens the problem is joe is that skeens Was overpowering guys With 99 98 and 100 a lot and now he's not and at least from What the pirates seem to be saying is is that if you're if you don't have the velocity Then you have to find a way to beat guys differently. You can't You know If the key doesn't fit in the door You can't just jam the key in like you you gotta figure out another way into the house So to speak and uh, and and look some some of this has been made about his weight Look, I I don't know if any of it is true. Joe. I would tell you this. No one seems to have the answer No one knows the answer right? They don't they don't know or else we would know because somebody would say something So it just seems to me that If I had to guess And I and I don't know this to to be factual Uh, I I think skeens is putting on Uh the the right Moves right now. I think he's saying all the right things I'm gonna speculate. I don't know this to be true at all That he will condition better in the offseason And the weight that he put on in the offseason I'm guessing it was with good intent to keep him through and keep him healthy for an entire season but sometimes There could be you know bad weight with a guy and I I think he's just pitching in my opinion only heavier than he's used to I think it may be potentially costing him in terms of velocity and I think maybe he again, my speculation only that maybe he doesn't feel as comfortable as he did when he was Uh, you know, maybe in a little bit better shape without the weight so I can only guess That this will go on. I don't think that much much will change joe. I would tell you Also in my opinion the second the pirates are eliminated Whether it's two weeks to go a week to go You will not see skeens pitch the rest of the season without a doubt. They will shut him down I think they would love to do it now, but they're still in the race And they will figure out exactly what is going on. I don't think it's arm slot I don't really even think it's mechanics. I I think it is just physical and and if you think about it There are guys that like to pitch heavier joe. There are guys that like to pitch lighter remember remember, uh, cc sabathia When he lost all the weight was horrible and then he put it back on and he was good again Lance lynn on the cardinals was horrible thin better, you know a little with more weight on Uh, it's the only thing that we could point to now I know they showed those beach photos of him and living done. I mean come on like in the end there's a lot of pictures that do look like that, but Joe, don't you remember paul skeen sort of being like a specimen like this big hulking kind of guy That would overpower you with his stuff I think he's still trying to do that and he doesn't have the same stuff and and it's not easy to reinvent yourself in august You know like as a pitcher, can you just change everything that you're gonna do? You know four fifths of the way through the season. You can't do it. I bet you skeens is awesome again next year I would not expect good results the rest of this year. Joe. He did not look good in miami I don't expect uh, and he got lucky on a couple of plays too. So, uh I bet more on ashcraft Than I would on skeet moving forward