2026 WBC: How Team USA built its best pitching staff ever

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NEW YORK -- Wherever Paul Skenes finds himself, he rarely deviates from routine. So on a recent frigid Manhattan morning, Skenes, in town to receive his 2025 National League Cy Young Award, showed up at a small baseball facility, his suitcase filled with workout tools, to throw a bullpen session. Just feet away from the 23-year-old superstar, a group of young boys practiced on the other side of the netting.

Skenes will be in the city again in March, taking the mound on Opening Day at Citi Field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. But his biggest starts of the year could actually come before that -- in a different…