Paul Skenes has essentially put the Pittsburgh Pirates organization on notice.

Paul Skenes is one of the best players in all of baseball, but he is playing for one of the MLB's worst teams in the Pittsburgh Pirates. That has to be frustrating, and you can already sense that Skenes may be getting a bit antsy.

On Friday, Skenes discussed what has been yet another rough season in Pittsburgh, and he clearly expects better things next year.

“This is a wasted year if we don’t learn what we need to do and we don’t know why we didn’t go out there and do what we wanted to do,” Skenes said, via Will Graves of the Associated Press. “If those things happen, then it’s a wasted year, in my opinion. I don’t think that’s happening. I think — individually, as a team and as an organization — we know the adjustments we need to make. Now we’ve just got to do them.”

Skenes has gone 10-10 with a 2.03 ERA this season, leading the majors in the latter category. He has allowed 132 hits while racking up 209 strikeouts over 181.2 innings of work, tallying a minuscule 0.958 WHIP. It's his second year in the bigs, and he made his second straight All-Star team. He is also well on track to win the NL Cy Young award.

But how much longer is Skenes going to tolerate losing in Steel City?

“There’s room to get better in this locker room,” Skenes added. “We just need to do it. I’m sure we’ll get some pieces and do all that, but my mind right now is ‘What can we do within the locker room to get better, now and for next year?’ There’s urgency to it, and we need to understand that and act on it.”

Skenes is under team control through 2029, so unless the Pirates decide to trade him, he will be in Pittsburgh for the foreseeable future. The Bucs received trade inquiries for the 23-year-old back at the deadline in July, but they rebuffed any offers they received.

But clearly, the clock is ticking. Skenes may very well be the most valuable arm in all of baseball right now, and it's on the Pirates' front office to ensure that they properly build around him moving forward.

Pittsburgh needs to add pitching depth around Skenes, but more than anything, it needs to improve its league-worst offense.