Paul Skenes named Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Year

The best pitcher in college baseball has added another award to his ever-growing list of accomplishments.

The best pitcher in college baseball has added another award to his ever-growing list of accomplishments.

[autotag]Paul Skenes[/autotag] has been named the [autotag]Collegiate Baseball Newspaper 2023 National Player of the Year[/autotag]. He becomes the third LSU player to ever win the coveted award, joining [autotag]Ben McDonald[/autotag] (1989) and [autotag]Lloyd Peever[/autotag] (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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