Kevin Gorman

I mean, if you're seeing guys signed for...

30 and $40 million of starting pitchers.

I think Paul schemes are going to get $50 million a year.

And I think it's going to be over 10 years because he's going to be, it's still in his twenties when he signs that contract.

So I just don't think that's realistic, but what it could do is it could allow the pirates to try to, you know, keep them.

If, if Scoogle, uh, after winning back-to-back Cy Young's can get what $31 million in, um,

in arbitration, that's a win for Paul Skeens, and that's not good for the Pirates.

But at the same time, isn't Paul Skeens worth $30 million if he's going to give you the type of numbers that he has in the past two seasons, the first two seasons?

Of course.

You almost look at it as like right now you're getting an absolute bargain that everybody in baseball would die for.

And maybe you pay for that a little bit on the back end.

I think it's worth it to keep Paul Skeens in the Pittsburgh Pirates uniform for as long as humanly possible.

And that's where it all begins.

The whole conversation with Paul Skeens, I think even more important than money for Paul Skeens, because he's going to get his money no matter what.

He's going to get paid.

But more important to him is the opportunity to win.

This is a guy who wants to win a World Series championship, is not shy about talking about that.

I think the role for baseball, where the people are concerned, is that if there is a salary cap,

and you do pay your superstar players a $50 million, and you're only going to spend to the cap floor, then what it does is it cuts out kind of the young veteran players who have gone through and reached free agency and expected to get a payday.

I think you're going to see a team where you have a handful of superstars and then you have a lot of rookies.