Kevin Gorman

They'd be able to offer him more money than everybody else and not know that they have to, you know, lose these guys to free agency the moment they draft them.

I mean, Paul Steens, people in Pittsburgh have been fretting about that since he was drafted.

It's like, well, we drafted him for the Yankees.

They're going to get the best Paul Steens years.

I mean, so clearly that's wrong.

Paul schemes was rookie of the year and now unanimous Cy Young award winner.

Enjoy him while you can is my advice, because I think he's going to break the bank.

I mean, if you're seeing guys signed for 30 and $40 million as 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, uh,

Try to keep him.

If Scooble, after winning back-to-back Cy Youngs, can get, what, $31 million 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?

You almost look at it as like right now you're getting an absolute bargain.

and 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 Skeen 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.