Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes will make the 32nd and final start of his first full major-league season Wednesday night against the Cincinnati Reds . He is the heavy favorite to win the NL Cy Young Award . If it happens, he will join New York Mets legend Doc Gooden as the only pitchers in history to win Rookie of the Year one year and Cy Young the next. Gooden did it in 1984 and 1985.

"Maybe a little bit," Skenes said last month when asked if he thinks about the Cy Young (via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ). "But it's the same thing as last year. One, the award itself is out of my hands. If it's up to the voters, it's out of your hands. Two, if you do what you're supposed to do and take care of it, keep doing the work and pitch well, it's going to take care of itself, howe

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