The best pitcher in college baseball has added another award to his ever-growing list of accomplishments.
Paul Skenes has been named the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper 2023 National Player of the Year. He becomes the third LSU player to ever win the coveted award, joining Ben McDonald (1989) and Lloyd Peever (1992).
Skenes has put up some gaudy stats this season. He has a 10-2 record with a 1.89 ERA in 90.1 innings. He has totaled 167 strikeouts with only 17 walks. Skenes is No. 1 in the nation in strikeouts (167), strikeouts per nine innings (16.64), and WHIP (0.79). Skenes is No. 3 in the nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio (9.82), No. 4 in ERA (1.89) and No. 6 in hits allowed per nine innings (5.38).
He will look to keep the LSU season alive as the Tigers play in their regional this weekend. Game 1 will be against Tulane at 2 p.m., but I don’t think we will see Skenes for that game.
If everything goes according to plan, I think we would see him in Game 2 when LSU plays the winner of Oregon State/Sam Houston.
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