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LAS VEGAS — The Yankees would not be doing their job if they did not continue to check in on Paul Skenes.

They did at the trade deadline this year, as The Post’s Jon Heyman previously reported, and they almost certainly will again this offseason. But at least for now, they are likely to get the same answer.

“He’s going to be a Pirate in 2026,” Pirates GM Ben Cherington said Tuesday at the general managers meetings at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Skenes, the heavy favorite to win his first Cy Young on Wednesday night, still has four years of team control left, which would make the potential return

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