Latest / Foul Territory / Paul Skenes joins FT in NYC

Transcript

Paul Skenes joins FT in NYC · Foul Territory

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: You know the history of the game, Babe brewslu.
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: Gerriggs a lot.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably just gonna a lot of lefties.
• 0:12
  Speaker 3: Paul Skiing is joining us right now. Rookie of the
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: Year in the National League, got taller.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: What was your favorite part of the night.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Oh Man? Sitting next to Tracy Morgan. Yeah, the whole time. Yeah,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: he was.
• 0:31
  Speaker 4: He was alternating between me and Trek and I think
• 0:34
  Speaker 4: we're kind of giving each other looks a little bit, like,
• 0:36
  Speaker 4: all right, who.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Wants to take the next shift? Was the funniest, can't.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: I saw him practicing his speech at one so he yeah,
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: he was.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: He was studying it.
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: When he wasn't talking to us too, he was, he
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: was studying it, which makes it a little bit funnier.
• 0:52
  Speaker 4: I think he lost his spot, but hey, that meant
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: that he got to he got to, uh, you know,
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: kind of give us some of his raw thoughts a
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: little bit.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it was it was cool. He smells good.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: I got yeah, like, what are you wearing? Because it
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: smells good?
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Just some bathroom bodyworks, colomn math and.
• 1:09
  Speaker 5: Body they're they're they're thriving.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Spot. But I don't know if we can show this.
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: But I mean, oh nice, Sea.
• 1:22
  Speaker 5: Sorry about why does it say roy.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't it's a little different
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: than m v P a little bit. Yeah, that's right,
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: that's right.
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: So when you were up there and obviously you know
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: you you talked about how you want to make it
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: easy for writers, right, can you explain like kind of
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: the backstory of what you're thinking there when you're like,
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: all right, you know, I want to make sure that
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: this is a unanimous decision when I'm going into season
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: after season to be a young and how you're kind
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: of trained brain wise because you're near the league.
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: This was your first year.
• 1:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's the goal. I mean, you saw
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: what Derek did with the unanimous Syng Award.
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's.
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: For you know, probably the coolest honor in terms of
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: getting an award like this is uh. I mean, you know,
• 2:04
  Speaker 4: the unanimous Hall of Fame selection too, like having everybody
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: kind of agree that you know you're the guy a
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: little bit, so you know, hopefully you know, that's the goal.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: That's you know, one of the things that's pushed me
• 2:17
  Speaker 4: a little bit this offseason. So yeah, just you know,
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: something to work for and look forward to next year.
• 2:23
  Speaker 6: Paul. Toward the end of the season, there was a
• 2:24
  Speaker 6: great debate Paul Skins, Jackson Merrill, even Jackson Churio into
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: the conversation. How much were you paying attention to that?
• 2:31
  Speaker 6: How much were you conscious of just the question of
• 2:34
  Speaker 6: who was going to be the Rookie of the Year.
• 2:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I the only reason I really saw
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: it and paid attention to it is just because it
• 2:42
  Speaker 4: was kind of on the TVs in the clubhouse, and
• 2:44
  Speaker 4: then we had fans, you know, kind of yelling it
• 2:46
  Speaker 4: at me in the stands. So other than that, I
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: didn't I didn't see a whole lot of it. But yeah,
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's one of those things like, you know,
• 2:55
  Speaker 4: we we win the Rookie of the Year and then
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: we go on and have a great career or we don't,
• 3:02
  Speaker 4: and uh so the Rookie of the Year is kind
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: of like, you know, it's it's cool and all, but
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: there's still a lot to be accomplished. So they both
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: had really good seasons. I got to face Chorio, I
• 3:11
  Speaker 4: didn't get to face Merrill, got to meet him, you know,
• 3:14
  Speaker 4: got to meet uh both of them. But you know,
• 3:18
  Speaker 4: there's gonna be a lot of battles in the future.
• 3:20
  Speaker 4: So I don't you know, got the award this year,
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: you know, which is great and all, but we're gonna
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: get to face each other a lot, you know over
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: the next uh you know, hopefully many years.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: What's next? Uh?
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean obviously in your mind, are you
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: thinking you saw school, we saw sale. You're thinking, I
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: want that trophy next, right, That's that's obviously as a
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: picture of the m v P has happened before for
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: some new Erland or Kershaw those guys. Is that what's
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: on your mind? Like? Is that is that the next
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: step you think you can get to?
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so.
• 3:56
  Speaker 4: I think the the awards are great. I think it's
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: a product of really just not putting limits on yourself
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: because you saw, you saw the the route obviously, you
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: see the routes that Verlander and Schurzer and Kershaw.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: Do they win it?
• 4:11
  Speaker 4: You know they were winning it every year. Uh, but
• 4:13
  Speaker 4: Derek and Chris they won it, you know, after some adversity.
• 4:17
  Speaker 4: So there are a lot of different ways to win
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: that award. So really, you know it, you know, it's
• 4:23
  Speaker 4: not about winning an award. In my mind, it's It's
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: about going out there and you know, executing at a
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: very high level and then you know, the awards and
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: all that stuff will come. And if your team wins,
• 4:36
  Speaker 4: I think it becomes a little bit easier. So that's uh,
• 4:38
  Speaker 4: that's definitely you know, first and foremost winning, Paul, what's.
• 4:43
  Speaker 6: The thing that you want to improve most upon as
• 4:45
  Speaker 6: a pitcher this year?
• 4:50
  Speaker 4: Probably just attacking the zone more, especially at the right times.
• 4:54
  Speaker 4: I think there were a lot of times last year
• 4:56
  Speaker 4: where I just you know, put myself in in bad
• 4:58
  Speaker 4: positions a little bit. Uh, after the after the season
• 5:02
  Speaker 4: was over, I had one of the analysts actually at
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: the l s U run some numbers for me on
• 5:09
  Speaker 4: on you know, Schooble and Sale and then me and
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: they pretty much led in just about every category, which
• 5:16
  Speaker 4: shows that, uh, that's you know, how you pitch at
• 5:20
  Speaker 4: a very high level. That's how you win those awards,
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: is you know, winning the you know, first two out
• 5:26
  Speaker 4: of three pitches strike percentage, first pitch strike percentage, stuff
• 5:32
  Speaker 4: like that, and those are kind of the process oriented
• 5:34
  Speaker 4: goals that I'm focusing on this year a little bit more.
• 5:37
  Speaker 5: All Right, you brought something up there, you had to
• 5:40
  Speaker 5: go back to l s U to.
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: Get analytics there there.
• 5:46
  Speaker 5: Let my guys get some analytic devices.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: No, I was.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: I was telling our analysts with the pirates are very good. Yeah,
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: so I I just have it be talking to him.
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: Uh And then he went home and ran the numbers
• 6:03
  Speaker 4: for me. I didn't ask him to do it, Oh man,
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: I should just did.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: You tell me? Nerd it out?
• 6:12
  Speaker 5: Like he was like, oh, Paul Skeens, I love this guy.
• 6:14
  Speaker 5: He was here and now he's back and now I'll
• 6:17
  Speaker 5: get these numbers for him?
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: Or do you not make fun of them for it? So?
• 6:20
  Speaker 4: Uh no, because I mean cause that that stuff's pretty valuable.
• 6:24
  Speaker 4: I think the analysts are I don't know, you know,
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: sometimes they get in the way, but a lot of
• 6:31
  Speaker 4: the times they have really good stuff. Like they came
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: to me, you know, during the year last year and said, hey,
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: you should throw your sinker more to lefties with two
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: strikes and I was like, okay, let's try it, and
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: then it you know, it works. So usually they're coming
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: to you with something they're probably right. So yeah, the analysts,
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes they're they're a little off. You should
• 6:51
  Speaker 4: probably listen to them. Usually they know what they're talking about.
• 6:53
  Speaker 5: But you also need to make sure you know, like
• 6:56
  Speaker 5: that's like freak stuff you're talking about. Like that's like like, hey,
• 7:00
  Speaker 5: you should saw your two seamer a few more times,
• 7:02
  Speaker 5: or like I talked to Radley Haddad rad and he's like, Dude,
• 7:07
  Speaker 5: this splinker that he's throwing this is in spring training.
• 7:09
  Speaker 5: He's like it's a joke and he just learned it
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: two days ago. And I'm like, this doesn't like this
• 7:15
  Speaker 5: is you do realize that.
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: You're a freak, right, So yeah, so Radley uh was
• 7:20
  Speaker 4: the one who actually came up to me. We're at
• 7:22
  Speaker 4: Dodger Stadium and he's the one who told me that.
• 7:24
  Speaker 4: Uh and Uh, Radley is one of those guys where
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: I just you know, if he says something, I listen.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: He's really smart.
• 7:31
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know, it's uh, show up every
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: day and you know, do the work. I think there
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: is a little bit, you know, because because working out
• 7:44
  Speaker 4: at LSU and that kind of thing you're you're around.
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: I'm around college guys a little bit more, and I
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: I think I have realized that I can make the
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: ball do a little bit different things than what they
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: can do. And they got they got really good stuff,
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I don't know, it's just go out there
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: and execute.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: She realized that, all right.
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: So my last one is, so you get up here
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: right to the show, you know, you prove that that
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: you should be up whatever it was May okay, and
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: then you're thriving in the big So now this is
• 8:11
  Speaker 3: your first off season. You're a pirate, right, So are
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: you dialed into Obviously they haven't done much yet, but
• 8:15
  Speaker 3: to the off season, like, hey, are we gonna have someone?
• 8:18
  Speaker 3: Because now this is you know, you're part of this
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: team now, so you're keeping track of off season moves. Okay,
• 8:23
  Speaker 3: the Cubs just got Kyle Tucker, Like are you are
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: you keeping Obviously you know it, but are you like
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: a fan of it because it affects your life and
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: your season coming up.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: More so more so just within our team.
• 8:35
  Speaker 4: Obviously you can't miss the the Tuckers, the Sotos, those
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: those transactions. I think I have a little bit greater
• 8:45
  Speaker 4: feel for what's going on, but it's still there. There
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: are something I had no idea We're going to make
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: that trade with the Guardians and that kind of thing.
• 8:51
  Speaker 4: There's there's some things that you know, still surprise me.
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: But I'm definitely more in tune and more interested in it,
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: I think than I was last year. But yeah, I
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: mean it's a more than anything, just because I don't
• 9:08
  Speaker 4: have anything else to do besides to worry about, uh,
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: you know us, you know, putting a really good team
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: together to win next year. So that's the goal, and
• 9:19
  Speaker 4: you know, whatever I have to do in December, you know, November, December, January,
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: which is worrying about these things, uh, to a much
• 9:28
  Speaker 4: greater extent than I was last year.
• 9:29
  Speaker 5: What did you do in your free time?
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: Sorry? What you said?
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: You don't have much else to do, Paul schis besides
• 9:35
  Speaker 5: talk to the analysts at l s U, work out
• 9:39
  Speaker 5: and clearly grow taller.
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: What what do you got going? I like to cook
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but like what steaks? Yeah, gumbo?
• 9:50
  Speaker 5: No, he's from there, but you live there and you
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: go back.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: I've eaten it a little bit. I don't know how
• 9:56
  Speaker 4: to make it. Yeah, it's I'm a pretty I'm pretty
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: much a one trick honey, but i'd like to think.
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: I'd like to think I'm, you know, really good at it.
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: All right, Two things before we let you go. One,
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: Livy's here with you. Obviously, I mean you're talking about
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: you don't have anything to do. I mean you can't
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: get married. You could be baseball power couple. That would
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: be on the list of things people want to see
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: in the future. But if he doesn't have stuff to do,
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sure she could come up with stuff, you know,
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: because we're all married. We all know once you get married,
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: they have a million things to do for you.
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Like I can't run it. We don't do I can't.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: I can't run out of yours, like he's never no
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: pressure saying, think of the power couple. You guys could
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: be Baseball's power couple. But before we let we go,
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: we had Barry Bonds in here, we had schoobl we
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: had Sale and school is send in the past. If
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: you could face one guy would be Barry. He's like, oh,
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: strike him out, And I'm like, trust me, you don't
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: want that. If you can face one person in history,
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: who would it be?
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean Barry's up there. I think just
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: for you know, the history of the game. The babe
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: brew slut Griggs, I mean a lot. Yeah, I'm probably
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: just gonna a lot of lefties, yeah, uh, And I
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: throw those a little bit more because of Bradley with
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: two strikes, full circles?
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: How do I get Sorry?
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: LSU guy, you say, hey, can you run a program
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: on how I would get baby? Probably an interesting fine?
• 11:31
  Speaker 5: What what was was the exact quote? I didn't see,
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: you know, all he saw was dumpy cutters and sinkers.
• 11:37
  Speaker 5: He ain't see Paul Skis building no houses and out
• 11:42
  Speaker 5: there no chance.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: That's right?
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: Well, Paul, awesome, awesome, Thank you for stopping by, Thanks
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: for being accessible. Obviously a ton of people want to
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: hear from you, and this is super cool and your
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: story is motivating. So thanks for stopping my man.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Good to see in person. Yeah, appreciate you, Appreciate you.
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: Congratulations