LAS VEGAS — Pirates ace Paul Skenes, fresh off capturing this year’s National League Cy Young Award , pushed back Wednesday night on a report from earlier in the day that quoted an anonymous teammate saying the righthander expressed a desire to pitch for the Yankees.

“I don’t know where that came from,” Skenes told reporters after receiving all 30 first-place votes in the Cy Young voting. “I don’t know the reporter. I don’t know the player that supposedly said that. But the goal is to win, and the goal is to win in Pittsburgh.”

Skenes, who went 10-10 with an MLB-leading 1.97 ERA in 32 starts for the perennially parsimonious Pirates in 2025, told the teammate that he had “no confidence” he would ever win in Pittsburgh, according to the report in NJ Advance Media .

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