Though he's barely a year removed from making his MLB debut, it's a sign of the times that Paul Skenes is already the subject of trade chatter.

That thinking drove ESPN baseball insider Jeff Passan to explain a similar line of thinking, as he pointed out that Skenes is virtually guaranteed to leave the Pirates when he becomes eligible for free agency, given the state of the franchise. By trading him now, Passan argued, the team could recoup a lot of his future value before that happens.

Projected to be one of the deepest rotations in recent memory, the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation has been decimated by injury in the first two months. Just a few weeks into the season, two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell went down with shoulder inflammation that eventually landed him on the 60-day IL and oft-injured All-Star Tyler Glasnow joined him on the sidelines a few weeks later with the same injury.