Right after Paul Skenes was selected by the Pirates last year, I grabbed him for $1 in my fantasy league. Obviously he wasn't pitching in MLB last year, so this meant I was reserving him and keeping him for '24, and hoping he got promoted early in the year. But even with that happening, I'll have to make a decision before the '25 season whether to keep him for $1 for that year only, or to pay extra draft $ to extend him. So it all comes down to how he does this year.

But I thought he was that special to where this was worth doing... AND blowing a keeper spot for him, as I couldn't keep him as a "rookie" since I got him in the middle of the year. (By contrast, I was able to keep Yamamoto and Kyle Harrison on that same team with no penalty against my keeper spots, since I had drafted them.)

I didn't know he was dating Olivia Dunne.

I wonder if between him and Jones, the Pirates can actually be decent for awhile. Offense is still fail though.