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LSU’s Paul Skenes (Mandy Sorenson)
Paul Skenes is the 2023 D1Baseball Player of the Year after putting together a historic season while helping to lead LSU to the national championship.
Skenes finished second in the nation among qualified pitchers in ERA (1.69) and first in strikeouts (209), breaking fellow LSU great Ben McDonald’s 34-year-old SEC strikeout record and becoming the first Division I pitcher to reach the 200-strikeout plateau since Long Beach State’s Jered Weaver in 2004. Remarkably, he struck out more than 10 times as many batters as he walked (20), while holding opponents to a .165 batting average in 122.2 innings. Unsurprisingly, he[…]
