What Paul Skenes thinks about Pirates fans pressuring ownership to spend

Pirates fans have gotten fed up with owner Bob Nutting’s unwillingness to spend on players.

Paul Skenes hears them, and he sees the positives in their frustration as he tries to lead a culture change for a club that has missed the playoffs the past nine years.

“We’re going to create it from within the locker room, and it’s not going to be an ownership thing,” Skenes told ESPN’s Jeff Passan as part of a profile on the 22-year-old. “Having a group of fans that are putting some pressure on the ownership and [general manager] Ben [Cherington] and all that — it’s not a bad thing, but we have to go out there and do it. I kind...
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