⚾ Graded 2024 Topps Now Paul Skenes #739 2nd Lowest ERA Through 22 Career Starts Since 1913 Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – The Perfect-Grade Real-Time Topps Now Milestone Card Commemorating the Pittsburgh Pirates Ace's Historic ERA Benchmark Through His First 22 Career MLB Starts, PSA 10 Gem Mint

⚾ Topps Now is baseball's real-time card format – the system that issues commemorative cards within days of the moments they document, capturing milestones as they happen rather than packaging them into the annual product cycle that traditional sets require. When a player achieves something historically significant mid-season, Topps Now creates the record: a card tied to the specific game and the specific number that placed the player in the historical record at the moment it happened. Card #739 in the 2024 Topps Now run documents the milestone: Paul Skenes' ERA through 22 career MLB starts was the second lowest posted by any starting pitcher in Major League Baseball in over one hundred and ten years. 🏈 wait ⚾

⚾ The framing of the milestone matters as context. The ERA record being measured covers the period from 1913 to the present – more than a century of starting pitchers, across eras of the game defined by different offensive environments, different baseballs, different mound heights, and every other variable that makes cross-era statistical comparison the endlessly interesting exercise it is for baseball historians. Through all of it, only one starting pitcher had posted a lower ERA through his first 22 career starts than Paul Skenes did in 2024. The Topps Now card is the permanent record of where Skenes stood in that company at the moment the milestone was reached. ⚾

⚾ Skenes arrived in Pittsburgh as the number one overall pick of the 2023 MLB Draft after a college career that ran from the Air Force Academy to LSU, where he was the dominant force in college baseball during the Tigers' run to the College World Series championship in 2023. The transition from the college mound to the major league mound happens fast for elite pitching prospects when the arsenal justifies the acceleration, and the ERA through 22 career MLB starts is what a historically dominant arsenal produces when it meets the professional game for the first time. ⚾

⚾ PSA 10 Gem Mint on the Topps Now milestone card for one of the most historically dominant pitching debuts the game has produced in over a century. Condition: NOS. ⚾

⚾ Paul Skenes. Pittsburgh Pirates. 2024 Topps Now. #739. 2nd Lowest ERA Through 22 Career Starts Since 1913. PSA 10. Gem Mint. LSU. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Graded 2024 Topps Now Paul Skenes #739 PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.