Let’s skip the typical preamble and get right to it: This matchup is all about the pitchers. We’ve got last year’s NL Rookie of Year against this year’s presumptive favorite as Paul Skenes and Cade Horton square off for the first time. Should Horton continue to pitch well enough for at least a second-place finish, this will also be a battle of pitchers who earned a year of service time without their teams getting a Prospect Promotion Incentive draft pick in return.
Skenes is the best pitcher in baseball right now and Horton has been one of the best since the break, posting a 0.