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Let’s level-set again. As play begins today, Skenes is eighth in MLB in FIP, tenth in xFIP, second in Statcast expected ERA, eighth in pitcher WAR at FanGraphs. There’s a pretty good argument that we should all shut up and leave him alone. If we are going to nitpick, though, it’s at the edges of his repertoire, where some pitches are both showing up poorly in stuff models and producing poor results. Skenes might be better off eliminating at least one of these deliveries -- I would say the change but you can argue for the sinker -- and focusing on the pitches he throws the best.
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