Paul Skenes Signed Pirates Nike Authentic White Jersey MLB Authenticated

Add the signature of the most dominant young pitcher in baseball to your collection in the sport's highest-tier available jersey format with this Paul Skenes Autographed Pittsburgh Pirates Nike Authentic Collection White Baseball Jersey — MLB Authenticated. The Nike Authentic Collection is the same construction worn by players on the field — sewn tackle twill lettering and numbering, on-field fabrication — and the white jersey in this listing carries the autograph of the pitcher who has produced the most historically unprecedented start to an MLB career of any starter in the modern era. Through his first 25 career major league starts, Skenes posted a 1.92 ERA with 183 strikeouts — making him the only pitcher since earned runs became an official statistic in both leagues in 1913 to produce a sub-2.00 ERA with at least 175 strikeouts through the first 25 starts of his MLB career. In 2024, he won the NL Rookie of the Year. In 2025, he won the NL Cy Young Award. He became the first player since Dwight Gooden in the 1984 and 1985 seasons to win those awards in consecutive years — and Gooden is the only other player in baseball history to have done it. The white Nike Authentic Collection jersey signed by Skenes is the on-field format of the most decorated two-year start to a pitching career the sport has seen in forty years, certified authentic by the official MLB authentication program with a tamper-proof hologram verifiable at MLB's official authentication website.

This Pittsburgh Pirates Nike Authentic Collection White Baseball Jersey (Size 40) has been hand-signed by Paul Skenes with a bold, clean autograph. The autograph has been certified authentic by MLB Authentication — the official MLB tamper-proof hologram is affixed to the jersey and verifiable at MLB's official authentication website.

Product Highlights

• Hand-signed by Paul Skenes — Pittsburgh Pirates; 2024 NL Rookie of the Year; 2025 NL Cy Young Award winner; two-time NL All-Star Game starting pitcher (2024, 2025)
• Pittsburgh Pirates Nike Authentic Collection White Baseball Jersey, Size 40 — Nike's highest-tier jersey construction; same on-field fabrication and sewn tackle twill lettering worn by players during games
• MLB Authenticated — official MLB tamper-proof hologram affixed to the jersey, verifiable at MLB's official authentication website
• First since Dwight Gooden (1984-85) to win NL Rookie of the Year and NL Cy Young in consecutive seasons — the only two players in baseball history to accomplish this
• Sub-2.00 ERA through first 25 MLB starts — only pitcher since 1913 (when earned runs became official in both leagues) to post a sub-2.00 ERA with at least 175 strikeouts through his first 25 career starts
• 2024 rookie season: 11-3, 1.96 ERA (lowest by any rookie with 20+ starts in the Live Ball Era since 1920), 170 strikeouts; started the 2024 MLB All-Star Game for the NL — fifth rookie in baseball history to start the Midsummer Classic, first No. 1 overall pick to do so as a rookie
• 2025: 1.97 ERA, 216 strikeouts, 7.7 WAR — led qualified NL starters in ERA, FIP, WHIP, and fWAR; first pitcher to begin career with consecutive All-Star Game starts
• Backed by our Lifetime Authenticity Guarantee

Through 25 Starts — A Credential Without Precedent

The most specific available credential for a Paul Skenes signed piece is not the award he won in his first season or the award he won in his second season — it is what he produced across both of them combined, at a pace the sport had no framework to measure because no pitcher had previously produced it. Through his first 25 major league starts, Skenes posted a 1.92 ERA with 183 strikeouts — numbers the Pirates organization confirmed make him the only pitcher since 1913 to have produced a sub-2.00 ERA with at least 175 strikeouts through the first 25 starts of an MLB career. The 1913 cutoff is significant: that is the year earned runs became an official statistic in both major leagues, making it the full available sample of professional baseball's statistical record. No pitcher across more than a century of major league baseball — not Walter Johnson, not Sandy Koufax, not Randy Johnson, not Jacob deGrom — produced those specific numbers through their first 25 career starts. His rookie ERA of 1.96 was the lowest by any pitcher with at least 20 starts in the Live Ball Era (since 1920). His 2025 ERA of 1.97 led all qualified NL starters by 52 points. The white Nike Authentic jersey signed by Skenes is the on-field format of the pitcher those numbers belong to — the same construction worn on the mound when each of those 25 starts was recorded.

The Gooden Comparison — What the Consecutive Awards Mean

On November 20, 2024, Paul Skenes was named the NL Rookie of the Year — earning 23 of 30 first-place votes from BBWAA writers, the second Pirate ever to win the award after Jason Bay in 2004. On November 12, 2025, he won the NL Cy Young Award — the first Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher to win the award since Doug Drabek in 1990, only the third Pirate ever to win it alongside Drabek and Vern Law (1960). The combination of the two awards in consecutive seasons put Skenes' name alongside one other player in the history of the sport: Dwight Gooden, who won the NL Rookie of the Year in 1984 and the NL Cy Young (unanimously) in 1985. In 40 years of baseball since Gooden accomplished it, no player had matched the feat until Skenes did in his first two seasons. Gooden's 1984-85 run is still considered one of the most dominant two-year starts to a pitching career in baseball history. Skenes' 2024-25 run is now the only other comparable available credential. The white Nike Authentic jersey signed by Skenes is the piece from the pitcher whose name now sits alongside Gooden's in the record that had stood for forty years.

Air Force to LSU to No. 1 — The Path That Built the Pitcher

Paul Skenes did not follow a conventional path to the first overall pick. He spent two years at the United States Air Force Academy — as a pitcher and a catcher, winning the John Olerud Award as the best two-way player in college baseball in 2022 — before transferring to LSU for his junior season. At LSU in 2023, he went 13-2 with a 1.69 ERA, set an SEC record with 209 strikeouts across 19 starts, and was named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player as LSU won the national championship over Florida. The Dick Howser Trophy — awarded to the top overall player in college baseball — went to Skenes that spring. The Pittsburgh Pirates selected him first overall in the 2023 MLB Draft and signed him for $9.2 million — the largest signing bonus in MLB draft history at the time — then promoted him to the major leagues in May 2024, less than a year after he had won the College World Series Most Outstanding Player award. The Air Force Academy years, the LSU season, the $9.2 million bonus, the May 2024 debut — the entire pre-MLB chapter of Skenes' career is compressed into fewer than three years of organized baseball at the highest collegiate level before he started the 2024 MLB All-Star Game as a 22-year-old rookie. The white Nike Authentic jersey signed by Skenes is the piece from the pitcher who built all of that credential before his 23rd birthday.

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This jersey has been certified authentic by MLB Authentication. The official MLB tamper-proof hologram is affixed directly to the jersey and is verifiable at MLB's official authentication website.

Authenticity

This jersey is certified authentic by MLB Authentication. The tamper-proof MLB hologram is verifiable at MLB's official authentication website.

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