The Los Angeles Dodgers have leaned into becoming a superteam. They already had Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, but this offseason they added Blake Snell, Tanner Scott and Rōki Sasaki.

With the team's extreme struggles, the Pirates could be expected to become sellers at this year's trade deadline. Bleacher Report 's Tim Kelly is predicting Tommy Pham, Dennis Santana, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Joey Bart are Pirates players he can see the team moving this summer. Skenes, for him, is not.

Just over one year to the date that Paul Skenes made his MLB debut, the Pittsburgh Pirates already find themselves having to deflect trade talk involving the pitching phenom.