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PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes was named Baseball America's 2024 Rookie of the Year on Monday.
Skenes is the second player from the Pirates to be named the publication's rookie of the year along with Andrew McCutchen in 2009.
The 22-year-old Skenes went 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA and 170 strikeouts.
Braves, Mets clinch
ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Braves bounced back from a stunning loss in the first game of a makeup doubleheader, claiming the last postseason berth with a 3-0 win over the Mets in the nightcap Monday after New York clinched a playoffs trip with an 8-7 victory in the opener.
With three teams in contention for the last two playoff spots in the National League, the Braves faced the Mets in a twin bill squeezed between the scheduled end to the regular season and the start of the Wild Card Series.
The defending NL champion Arizona Diamondbacks could only watch from afar and were eliminated as NL East rivals made up a pair of games rained out last week as Hurricane Helene wreaked destruction in the southeastern U.S.
The Diamondbacks needed one team to sweep, so they were pulling for the Mets after they locked up their postseason spot.
Elsewhere:
n The San Francisco Giants hired former catcher Buster Posey as president of baseball operations and fired Farhan Zaidi.
n Major League Baseball is going back to using primary team uniforms for the All-Star Game, scrapping criticized special jerseys used for the past four years.
n Shohei Ohtani topped Major League Baseball jersey sales for the second straight season while becoming the first player to reach 50 homers and 50 stolen bases in the same year.