Skenes takes spotlight on Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Paul Skenes knows how to handle a baseball. But a video game controller? That’s not his forte.
Although he is on the cover of MLB The Show 25, Skenes admitted during his guest spot Tuesday night on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” that he will probably never play the video game because, well, he’s just not very good at them.
“I’m terrible,” he said. “I don’t have the finger dexterity to press the right buttons at the right time, so I just don't do it.”
“I guess, in the end, you and I are the same,” Meyers quipped.
Of course, there is no one quite like Skenes. The Pirates’ generational ace whose fastball regularly hits 100 mph on the radar gun had a historic debut season, capped by winning the NL Rookie of the Year Award and being a finalist for the NL Cy Young Award.
He also has that identifiable mustache. Why did he choose to grow the ‘stache while in college at LSU?
“Pretty much just laziness,” he joked. “Ran out of razors.”
Skenes said he was honored by the ROY win, but when asked to pick which achievement meant more to him, the 22-year-old said that being a Cy finalist “probably hit closest to home for me.”
“I kind of knew I wasn't going to win,” he said. “Didn't have a full season, but just being up there with Chris Sale and Zack Wheeler, two guys that I've watched for a long time now and have been the best in the game for a while, just being up there, kind of in the conversation was pretty cool for me.”
Skenes has also been at the center of attention for his baseball card. Specifically, a 1-of-1 Rookie Debut Patch Autograph card that was pulled by an 11-year-old kid last week and will be auctioned off for charity.
Skenes said he was “super excited” to find out that the card ended up in the hands of a young fan.
“What would have been the worst outcome for you?” Meyers asked.
“Probably a 50-year-old collector, to be honest,” Skenes said.
Brian Murphy is a reporter for MLB.com.