{"id":377526,"date":"2025-11-14T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377526\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T04:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:42:12","slug":"paul-skenes-makes-pirates-intentions-clear-as-yankees-rumor-swirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377526\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes makes Pirates intentions clear as Yankees rumor swirls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Skenes has a message for anyone wondering if he has his sights set on leaving the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is to win, and the goal is to win in Pittsburgh,\u201d Skenes told reporters after he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/12\/sports\/paul-skenes-livvy-dunne-handled-cy-young-announcement-like-pros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the National League Cy Young Award<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Skenes was responding to a report from NJ Advance Media in which an unnamed Pirates player is quoted as saying that the superstar pitcher was \u201choping for a trade\u201d and that Skenes \u201cwants to play for the Yankees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skenes said that he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/11\/sports\/yankees-paul-skenes-situation-remains-status-quo-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had seen the report<\/a>, but \u201cdidn\u2019t think much about it\u201d and expressed a desire to be part of the group of Pirates that can help change the perception of the organization outside of Pittsburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37662803\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP_Cy_Young_Award_Baseball_11184-1fb14-0.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers during the second inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025. \" class=\"wp-image-37662803\"  \/>Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers during the second inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025.  AP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way that fans see us outside of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is not supposed to win,\u201d Skenes said. \u201cThere are 29 fan bases that expect us to lose. I want to be a part of the 26 guys that change that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skenes has been a bona fide superstar since he made his MLB debut in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Skenes became just the second pitcher in MLB history to win the Cy Young Award the year following a Rookie of the Year nod, joining the likes of Mets great Dwight Gooden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He had an MLB-best 1.97 ERA while striking out 216 batters over the course of 187 \u2153 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the Pirates have been perennial losers and have not made the postseason since 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37662810\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2237209264.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Skenes #30 of the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrates with teammates prior to a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on September 24, 2025 in Cincinnati, Ohio. \" class=\"wp-image-37662810\"  \/>Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrates with teammates prior to a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park on September 24, 2025 in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t won a World Series since 1979, but Skenes didn\u2019t seem deterred by that fact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForty-six years without a World Series championship,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is why I\u2019m going to show up to the ballpark, and I\u2019m going to work to get everybody pushing in the same direction. I know there are other guys who are going to do the same. That\u2019s all the truth.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Skenes has a message for anyone wondering if he has his sights set on leaving the Pirates.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":377527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1266,2228,34554,1886,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-377526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-new-york-yankees","10":"tag-paul-skenes","11":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115546223591628046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}