With the Pirates barreling toward a 90-plus-loss season, their ace is getting candid about what they should learn from 2025.

Paul Skenes, who leads MLB with a 2.03 ERA, was an All-Star for the second time and is likely headed toward his first National League Cy Young Award this year, but as a team, the Pirates will miss the playoffs once again, a place they haven’t been since the 2015 wild-card game.

Skenes, speaking to reporters on Friday, explained that Pittsburgh must take key lessons from the organization’s seventh straight losing campaign.

“This is a wasted year if we don’t learn what we need to do and we don’t know why we didn’t go out there and do what we wanted to do,” the right-handed ace said. “If those things happen, then it’s a wasted year, in my opinion. I don’t think that’

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