When Marco Gonzales went on the IL with a forearm strain following his last start for the Pirates on Saturday, tonight’s game should have turned into one of the most electrifying on the entire baseball calendar! While Pittsburgh was left scrabbling to fill that rotation spot, they had a very obvious solution sitting right in front of them in perhaps the most exciting young pitching prospect in the entire sport.
But instead of calling Paul Skenes up to make his big league debut tonight, they let him play with his food for another outing in Indianapolis last night.