Paul Skenes' SPLINKER is insane 😳

[@XR_Clipz4]

This guy is an absolute beast. Keep up the good work

[@vranthis]

im from montreal i saw Pedro Martinez debute and i followed him his whole career. The ball mouvement on Paul Skenes pitches remind a lot of Pedro Martinez plus a 100 mph fastball. This is generational pitching right there. Baseball is a very good spot right now, talent is at a hightime level. If the MLB can make it so those talent can express themself freely we got many years of great baseball ahead of us. It is up to MLB to not drop the ..ball. Bedoom tss !

[@Sad_Cat_Epiphany]

Skenes is truly a natural at pitching. He's got the control and the creative wits to throw some nasty stuff. I just hope he takes care of his arm.

[@hateusernames2]

for a rookie he's top notch. He' the Real Deal!

[@JonnySublime]

94 mph with a late vertical break. Brains can’t compute that fast.

[@Lorddurango]

Yeah you have to completely guess when and where he's gonna throw it. If youre expecting a fast ball and he throws that, sorry bud, you're gonna look a little dumb. Happens to everyone vs guys who can throw like that.

[@antmj2335]

@@Lorddurangotry hitting jhoan duran’s splinker at 100. Nastiest pitch in the game.

[@chriswick7987]

It’s just not fair😥

[@Mrduckgamer123]

Insane pitching

[@spongecake951]

that movement at that velocity is nutty

[@SpaceyVRRR]

The way it drops is nastyyyyy

[@zacfrishkorn836]

the drop mixed with the speed is an insane combo

[@rockygillman6404]

How in the world does he make it curve to the right like that....crazy

[@sar4806]

The vertical drop is so insane

[@abesview5855]

Dude is a BEAST!

[@shadowlazers]

Skenes himself says its a sinker..but sometimes it runs right more than drop down

[@josefadams647]

he's a future HOF.

[@delmarhi]

That’s awesome. Looks like he’s having an awesome time too. Good stuff. Is the type of ball I like watching. Guys out there having fun. Win or lose.

[@staticbb]

when it be splinkin'. IT BE SPLINKIN'.

[@DJGearBolt]

This pitch is so much fun!

[@SnackAttack77]

Can be used like a sinker, split or screwball to LHBs, all at mid 90s, insane

[@hankkim6828]

Dude could be an all-time great. I hope he doesn't burn his arm out...

[@GamerKru1996]

If Skenes stays healthy the skies the limit for him.

[@skater3333ful]

Ok I was not expecting a splinker to be 95mph damn!

[@SemperSalam]

Too bad the Pirates won’t spend the money to get this guy in the playoffs.

[@Zaximillian]

Or keep him.

[@only1547]

He will be top 5 all-time, without a doubt

[@JephthahTait]

My bestest favourite manest beastest guy to walk the mount. I know those aren’t real words but this guy isn’t real too. 😅

[@lucassnow2959]

Can't wait to see how this guy does on the Pirates for years to come. He's already almost a guaranteed win every time he's out there.

[@alexburns5934]

Come to the Yankees

[@Trumpisgod]

@@alexburns5934he will eventually

[@lausdomini7478]

The Pirates don't keep good players.

[@REVIVALFitness]

He will be on the Yankees or Dodgers in a couple years. Bob Nutting is itching to give him away already.

[@RhinoAg]

hes gotta leave the Pirates to go anywhere

[@Panster7]

1:12 that's crazy

[@deanhopkins4117]

That pitch is flat out unhittable 🤯🤌🏽

[@yoooz5741]

Wow! He is too good!

[@MeatCognition]

SPLINKED ALL OVER EM.

[@redcapote4760]

The Spluck Spluck 9000.

[@snakers716]

Oh daddy. Splink on me

[@thaatscrazy]

Should call it the "sitter" (SI/nker+spl/ITTER), because it sits people.

[@tpstrat14]

when every world class hitter is swinging at least 6 inches too high at a pitch, you know it's good

[@Snatchystashy]

Buy this kid's rookie card now. He will be a phenom.

[@CollinIsBallin]

dayuuuuuum

[@Gonzo81]

Velocity and movement is ridiculous! 😮

[@ChrisP6789]

This dude is unreal. ROTY for sure

[@CosmicStar3]

Started too late. Imanaga or Yamamoto will definitely win ROTY

[@hugodelaroca4231]

@@CosmicStar3it’s going to be tough for Yama now

[@johnmedina5399]

The cubs pitcher imanaga is probably the favorite to win it.

[@jvc3566]

Gil

[@CosmicStar3]

@@hugodelaroca4231 true i forgot about his injury, but imanaga still has a way better chance than skenes

[@finmason8339]

This pitch is the meta

[@24tommyst]

DAT SPLINKER!

[@AccentShmaccent]

Changing the game big fella... props!

[@Mrduckgamer123]

Great video

[@JaredHettler]

Please God protect this man's elbow. He is so electric. I didn't buy into the hype when he was in the minors but he is the truth. I knew he was good but I didn't buy into the "once in a generation" thing. Welp... so much for that!

[@henrivanbemmel]

Yes, but 1. This is his first trip around the majors. The coaches are gonna be watching him real close. We'll see what happens in August and September. 2. To be really great you gotta stay around for a number of years. He's be up for 2 months. Let's keep our shirt on, enjoy it and see what happens. 3. I don't see the Pirates being able to hold on to him. If this keeps up, his price is going be high.

[@dPokey]

future cy young

[@JorgeFeliz-v4l]

Future hall of famer like Jackson Holliday 😂

[@gradyjones7017]

Only 7 career starts… way too early to tell

[@GoBrowns21]

Fr

[@Man_ona_Mission7]

I bet he wins within his first 3 seasons

[@whosZixi]

@@JorgeFeliz-v4lyou mad? Jackson didn't do anything in MLB.

[@Yongsk8]

At 94 mph? Dayum!

[@fartissimo]

It's unfair. Good time to be a Bucs fan

[@tvtechwonv27]

I invented a pitch when I was in little league. I called it the F U ball. Gripped the baseball with the middle finger 🖕 between the two seems and it danced like a screwball but it had good velocity and acted like a splitter at the end. I struck out a lot of ham and eggers with that pitch. 😂

[@nan68]

He'd probably be the best wiffle ball pitcher of all time

[@ExopMan]

That's a lot of drop for a 95 mph pitch

[@scglobalcap]

Thats not a splitter because it spins. Classic splitfinger fastballs have little to no rotation. Its kinda a hybrid fastball/forkball

[@johnyarusinsky1946]

Anyone remember another Pirates pitcher named Bryan Bullington who was the next "can't miss" arm? Given the rash of injuries to starting pitching, it's only a matter of time before Skenes blows his arm out. This kind of heat and torque on the ligaments will not be sustainable. This is fun while it lasts, but just wait.

[@TiagoGomez-hb9te]

MLB's too reliant on velocity...

[@mithcee]

They were being really careful with him this season, to the point where people were complaining. Which is dumb of people, the Pirates staff are doing the right thing. They're not treating him like they have been treating pitchers for the last decade.

[@mpaulm]

Dude will be in New York or California soon.

[@jimlahey3919]

It’s just a splitter. A very effective splitter

[@theRevVA32]

A normal splitter doesnt break horizontally arm side this much.

[@thomasgorman1535]

If the Pirates don't sign him to a long term contract with incentives immediately, they should sell the team to New York. This guy has the resume to have the next Babe Ruth impact to major league baseball. What? He is a superstar pitcher who also could hit and hit Home Runs, just like Babe Ruth. Sign Skenes for life now.

[@doug3773]

LMAO @MLB trying to push this as a new pitch…. lmao “splinker” it’s a high velo splitter… Duran in minnesota has thrown this for years LOL

[@williamanderson6006]

Wrong completely different action get a clue or quit commenting

[@timpicard9946]

Lol gotta love when ppl think they know pitching... if you haven't done it, don't comment on it... entirely different grip also splitters for the most part have no left to right movement, watch this video again and tell me it's a splitter now lol

[@donkeykong1234]

they couldn't find a better name for the pitch? it makes it sound like a pinball machine

[@Circiaify]

In the words of Teddy KGB from Rounders, I will say, "Pay dat man his monies." Jesus he's good.

[@DV87777]

Splinter splinker... Splitter idgaf that thing is NASTY Geaux Tigers

[@ygoeb13]

Its insane to watch how badly these bats are missing... some of them are nowhere close!

[@Lawrence-k4d]

Hitters swearing and swaring "swatting air " against the splinker.

[@dasheight203]

After this season he should hold out for a career contract, cus that arm ain’t gonna last too long throwing like that

[@cabinfourus]

I remember Ryan throwing the first 100 mph pitch ever. Ryan could throw a few each game, but Skenes is throwing 100 mph consistently. The real issue with his 'splinker' is that it looks like his fastball but drops in on the right side at 98 mph! If his arm holds up, he is a future HOFer. The problem with his pitch is it will make baseball even more boring to watch.

[@AAAgator]

The first few they showed looked like a slider/sinker and were moving away from righties, then they started moving in on righties

[@Ultra-Gamer81]

Pirates ownership will find a reason to trade or sell this guy to another ballclub for pretty much nothing as the case has been since the mid 90's. The ownership makes too much money on tickets, concessions, merchandise, etc. The last great Pirates teams were between 1989-1993 and managed by Jim Leyland, they were one of the top 5 teams in the league, but look at them 30+ years later, no World Series since 1979. Take it from me, I used to be a Pirates fan, but it's been 30 years since I cared.

[@SRTVPR]

Making these hitters look silly 😂

[@Jackpot.Jimmy.]

What is this title?

[@3310이재준]

almost like treinen

[@ardavidsonjr]

Just go back through the video and look at each of those batters after the swing. Every last one of them looked demoralized.

[@bdub8459]

Splinker???? In my day, it was called a drop ball. Where do people come up with these names????

[@kenosabi]

I'd like to get excited but let's be real here: he's getting traded asap.

[@APPALACHIAN_MOTH]

I met Randy Johnson, I asked him creative pitches he has tried. Griped the threads with his pinky and ring finger and said throw as hard as you , use a cone or batting tee as a batter practice until you hit the cone once every 3 throws. It is a difficult pitch. I did use it a few times when I was ahead in the count. The ball had very unpredictable location. As a southpaw pitcher it would approach a righty hitter as a change up then go up and in setting up the next pitch.

[@pensthepro280]

this video is about paul skenes fyi

[@SevenNightmares99]

So "SPLINKER" is Split Fast Ball + Sinker.. is that it??

[@032107silvester]

His skin care is rookie level.

[@matthicksxx]

What is a splinkler?

[@doug3773]

just a splitter thrown at high velocity, they’re trying to make Paul out to be some guru who created an entire pitch….

[@nolegsmcgee483]

@@doug3773 not exactly. its a pitch thrown with a splitter grip, but it moves like a sinker. for a true splitter look at shohei, straight vertical movement that is about 8mph slower than his fastball. a true sinker has its own grip with the pointer and middle fingers on the narrow part of the seams parralel to them, as opposed to a 4 seam fb which as the name suggests, intersects the seams at 4 places. a sinker is usually pretty close in velocity to the 4 seamer, typically 1-2 mph slower for the better sinker ballers who also throw a fastball. The splinker is, you guessed it, a hybrid of the 2. It is slower than the heater but not as much as a splitter, skenes' is 5mph slower according to baseball savant, but it has movement close to the downward break of a splitter with as decent amount of arm side run like a sinker. But yes, Paul did not invent it. Prior to skenes, Jhoan Duran was throwing a splinker that is better than skenes at least by velocity. but paul's xwoba, or expected weighted on base% is better at .245 vs .258.

[@Wario8318]

He just went through 7 no hit innings with 11 k's rediculous

[@bornfree2218]

Did he already get the surgery?

[@kickdeboll]

SKENES

[@chesslerbooks]

I hope they leave him in when he has a no-hitter or even a perfect game started. Not just for him, but for all of us fans. Players like Skenes and Ohtani are making baseball fun to watch again. It's in everybody's interest, the owners and networks will make billions from these two. Let's get some more two-way players, hitters who can pitch. Let's have some fun with this rusty old game.

[@AM93000]

There is one thing i wanna do: shave his mustache

[@cutriet]

you can see this UCL straining in the slow-mo. I hope his arm last...

[@RobertGrim-hw3fd]

Smoked Him...

[@mikemcmullan8781]

95 that falls off the table...good luck.

[@thegreatbambino1041]

its a spilt finger fastball..

[@JHC777]

+ it moves like a sinker so splinker

[@MIngalls]

95 and just DROPS... thats rough. Seems impossible to hit. Contact is all you can hope for lol

[@curtiswogan6703]

The word splinker makes me uncomfortable and I'm not sure why.

[@se2334]

@jomboy pls explain

[@noahross1548]

Quit trying to kill it he throws 90-105mph just make contact it will jump out the Park

[@cJeremy]

great but i don't like how they're always just making up names.

[@kimhyungju3717]

its nasty

[@SOLDIER_Class1_Avi]

Hopefully, a successor to Blass' Legacy. Just hope it doesn't end the same way.

[@BlurPROD]

Dont get me wrong i like skenes but yall are d1 glazers 💀💀

[@labguru7628]

How long will his elbow last? He throws nasty stuff, but I fear the worst since it seems every flame thrower these days eventually needs Tommy John surgery.

[@ardavidsonjr]

You couldn't hit that pitch with a 2 by 4, much less a bat.

[@samxyx]

Back in my a 95 mph pitch was just called a fastball! And that was only like 3 years ago.....

[@Kmurrproductions]

If him was a person

[@ErrenG-f9w]

GEAUX LIVVY'S BOYFRIEND !!!

[@neilpm12]

He may have a Verlander type career

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

No, he won't cry over a pitch.

[@cooljonathon30]

Can you please post about something different then paul skenes and hilights

[@bombitvcajita]

Yet he’s like a bronze in @MLBTHESHOW

[@modrn_]

Those Detroit Uni's gotta go..

[@cdfchung]

He is the next Justin Verlander such a cool cat!

[@Thibs1082]

One a day he doesn't have his fastball command, he kills you with something else

[@snowman9642]

Based on his hand grip, it’s a splitter. Please MLB, quit trying to make Splinker “fetch” a thing. It’s not.

[@DaxperOfficial]

I get what your saying but the speed makes it seem more like a sinker because its faster. Also some of these pitches are spinning to the right alittle bit which a splitter doesn't do.

[@LumpyAdams]

Try being a Pirates fan and listening to their commentators. It is insufferable how many times they want to say it.

[@samurai_8917]

Its just a power sinker with slightly more spread grip, nobody is throwing a true splitter over 92/93

[@Ahilliard44]

Pretty sure their fingers would be rubber raw with proper split grip at 95

[@aeskes1978]

Who cares…it’s baseball let it be fun and call it whatever you want. Nice to have something new to talk about so ride the wave while it lasts.

[@YngHstlr]

ROTY