NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes is once again brushing off a report claiming he wants out of Pittsburgh.

In an interview on “The Dan Patrick Show” on Tuesday, Skenes made it clear he isn’t looking for an exit from the Pirates — dismissing an anonymous report linking him to a hoped-for Yankees trade as false and insisting his focus remains on winning in Pittsburgh.

“I was frustrated for a couple of hours, and then kind of got over it and talked to the media later that night,” Skenes said in a clip shared on X/Twitter . “You know, it is what it is. There’s stuff that’s going to come out, you know, good and bad ... it’s not true.”

On Nov. 12, NJ Advance Media’s Randy Miller reported that an anonymous Pirates teammate said Skenes had expressed “multiple times” that he wanted to

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