Paul Skenes seemed to arrive in the pros like Aphrodite rising from the sea: fully formed. The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted him last year with the No. 1 pick, shortly after he led Louisiana State University to a College World Series title; in a playoff game against the University of Tennessee, he’d thrown a hundred and twenty-three pitches, forty-six of which were fastballs at or above a hundred miles per hour—including a stretch of seven straight.
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