2025 MLB All-Star Game: Pirates’ Paul Skenes and Tigers’ Tarik Skubal named starting pitchers for Tuesday

The defending winner Al Cy Young and the best young baseball launcher will be on the mound for the MLB 2025 star match next Tuesday in Trist Park in Atlanta. Lefty Tarik Skubal by Detroit Tigers and the Pittsburgh pirates, Paul Skenes, were named the starting launchers of the stars match. The broadcast of the MLB on Saturday evening of Fox made this announcement.

Here is Skenes who receive the call from the Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dave Roberts, who will manage the National League team.

At 23, Skenes will become the youngest launcher to have started the consecutive stars matches, going beyond the renowned temple Robin Roberts. Roberts began star matches from 1950 and 1951 to 23 and 24 years old. Skenes leads baseball with an MPM of 2.01 and withdrew 131 strikers in 121 sleeves. It was recruited from the year of the NL last season and finished third in NL Cy Young Voting.

As for Skubal, he appeared in the star match last season, but did not start. It was his first nod of the stars’ match. He then won Al Cy Young unanimously. Skubal was even better this season, with a lower era (2.39 against 2.23), a lower whip (0.92 against 0.83) and a higher removal / walking ratio (6.51 against 9.56). He has become the most dominant launcher in the game.

Skenes and Skubal certainly deserve the start of the game of the stars, although the options are a little limited. Several other candidates to start the game of stars withdrew from the competition for workload reasons, including Hunter Brown (Houston Astros), Garrett Crochet (Boston Red Sox), Max Fried (New York Yankees) and Zack Wheeler (Philadelphia Phillies).

Here are the complete all-star game lists. Starting position players are selected by the fans’ vote. The reserve positions the players and launchers are selected by the vote and the selection of the players by the commissioner’s office. Starting launchers are generally selected by managers – Skipper Roberts and Yankees Aaron Boone – after consulting the launcher’s team.

The 95th annual star match will be played on Tuesday July 15. The American league has won 10 of the last 11 stars games, although the series of all time is much closer to 48-44-2 in favor of the AL.