The post Paul Skenes Wins NL Cy Young As Speculaticom. Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes delivers in the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Michael Swensen) Naturally as might be expect, the Yankees are among those viewed as a destination for the Skenes sometime in the upcoming future. It is a story that gained some legs on Wednesday on the second day of the GM meetings in Las Vegas when NJ. com published a story about a teammate from Pittsburgh saying how Skenes seemingly dreams of playing for the Yankees at some point. So far Skenes’ lone experience with the Yankees was a two-inning cameo on the final Saturday of the 2024 season at Yankee Stadium when he struck out Juan Soto and Aaron Judge as gymnast girlfriend Livvy Dunne cheered him on. That was at the end of his rookie season when he beat Jackson Merrill for Rookie of the Year while joining a 76-win team so there was no speculation then but it figures to be the kind of thing to appear now and occasionally in the future until the Pirates lock him up to a long-term deal or actually trade him. It is not quite like Gerrit Cole going to the World Series in 2001 as a child with a sign proclaiming his massive Yankee fandom but it is out there so much to the point that GM Ben Cherrington even addressed the topic. “What we’re going to.