While the Pittsburgh Steelers just shipped QB Kenny Pickett to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Pittsburgh Pirates are celebrating their star rookie pitcher, Paul Skenes. The Steelers drafted Pickett, and the Pirates Skenes, to be the future of their respective franchises, but the latter, in a rare instance, had far more success than the former. How did it end up this way?
“This is … maybe the one time you might say the Pirates’ front office really got it right and the Steelers’ front office didn’t really have a plan”, former Steelers front office executive Doug Whaley said on 93.