Leaving Paul Skenes out of airplanes

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Leaving Paul Skenes out of airplanes

With every passing minute, Paul Skenes inched the center of the MLB universe a little closer to himself. He’s the ruler of it all, the source of the league’s gravity, its biggest star and heaviest metaphorical object. Okay, I’m exaggerating a bit, for now. But in a sense, it’s literally true. In 2024, for the second time in three years, no team traveled fewer miles than the Pirates, according to Baseball Savant’s MLB travel schedule page. A deca…