There's no denying that Paul Skenes has become one of the best pitchers in all of baseball. The LSU legend and National Champion won the National League Rookie of the Year in 2024, won the National League Cy Young Award in 2025, and has been the National League's starting pitcher in back-to-back All-Star games to begin his career. All of those accolades, along with his dazzling statistics, have Skenes off to one of the best starts to a career in MLB history.
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Skenes is receiving high praise entering the 2026 season, as he was ranked as the No. 1 pitcher and No. 7 overall player in the league on MLB Network's list of the Top 100 players. That's extremely high praise for a 23-year-old pitcher who has just 55 career starts under his belt.
Now that spring training has begun, Skenes is drawing plenty of attention as the 2026 season approaches. One viral video making the round on social media show just how un-hittable Skenes really is.
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Rob Friedman, aka PitchingNinja on X (formerly Twitter) is one of the most popular baseball accounts on social media. The latest viral video from the account shows four of Skenes' pitches on an overlay. The video showcases Skenes' fastball, splinker, sweeper, and changeup in the same tunnel, and then ending up in very different places. So far, the post has garnered 6.4 million views and thousands of likes, re-posts, and comments.
Paul Skenes, 100mph Fastball, 95mph Splinker, 85mph Sweeper & 88mph Changeup, 4 Pitch Overlay 😳 pic.twitter.com/o12fNK3STE
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) February 17, 2026
How does anyone hit that? The answer is that most don't.
Skenes is holding opposing hitters to a measly .198 batting average in his career, and has racked up 386 strikeouts in 320.2 innings of work. Furthermore, he owns a sensational 1.96 ERA and 0.948 WHIP in his career, and his 217 ERA+ and 2.36 FIP both led the majors this past season.
Over the last 2.5 years, Skenes has become a College World Series National Champion, won the CWS Most Outstanding Player, won the Dick Howser Trophy, been the No. 1 overall pick in the MLB Draft, started the MLB All-Star Game twice, won the National League Rookie of the Year, and won the National League Cy Young.
He figures to be a Cy Young frontrunner again in 2026, and Tiger fans are excited to see how he can continue building on his incredible start to his career.