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.

Paul Skenes' name has popped up in numerous trade rumors amid the Pirates' struggles this season, but there is apparently "no chance" that Pittsburgh pulls the trigger.