Email a copy of 'Make Or Break Year: Phil Hughes' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Make Or Break Year: Phil Hughes' to a friend
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inleylandwetrust
I feel like he should be 30 years old by now
UltimateYankeeFan
There is absolutely nothing anyone can add to that blog. It says it all.
MB923
I think Hughes was going to get a rotation spot even if Pineda was fine.
Brendan Klare
Yeah, Freddy Garcia would have been the odd man out. Still a great analysis
bandits33
Hughes would have to do incredibly poorly to get non-tendered. I honestly don’t even think its possible unless he has to get TJ surgery or something. Even if he flops as a starter (don’t think he will), they won’t have to give a large arbitration raise, and they’ll definitely keep him on for ~$4M as a reliever.
Tommet
Hughes is horrible. The next Pelfrey
andrewyf
Hughes would have a 3.20 ERA in that cavern of a ballpark. Pelfrey wouldn’t even make the majors in the AL.
MB923
Road ERA
Pelfrey – 5.36
Hughes – 3.88
Not even close. Not to mention most of Hughes road starts still come at hitters ballparks.
johnsilver
NY might want to be careful with Hughes anyway. He has had issues with health and Cash doesn’t want another Ian Kennedy syndrome here. Not saying that just pitching in the AL is what the issue is, but most here who are fans of AL East teams, know that just flipping these young kids (who have talent) to weaker NL divisions is an instant performance boost.
I could also see Chamberlain being a very impressive NL pitcher even and not taking away from him, like as a SP even, but the AL East is just so stacked, many pitchers have to be game on from the get go physically, mentally and talent wise.
The Orioles Jeremy Guthrie will probably be the next prime example of an AL East pitcher who put up ho-hum numbers and went to a weak NL division to dominate.. Following a very, very long line.
MetsMagic
Do you have any examples of that? Can’t imagine moving from Camden to Coors will turn Guthrie into Greg Maddux.
johnsilver
You kidding? Ted Lilly, Javy Vazquez, Derek Lowe. Even the fore mentioned Ian Kennedy, though he may have eventually succeeded at NY.
Baseball history is littered with pitchers moving to the NL and getting to face a pitcher, rather than a DH if nothing else and improving.
RunItOut
Hughes outpitched every other starter this spring, therefore, Pineda getting hurt had absolutely nothing to do with Hughes getting a rotation spot. Author follows Yankees and should know better than to print that.
MB923
Hey, everyone makes mistakes.
SierraM363
He’s had a great career so far. Hopefully the next crop of NY pitchers follows his “success”.
asdf asdf
“Hughes moved into the team’s rotation in 2010 and rewarded them with an
18-8 record. That record had more to do with all the terrific run
support he received”.
that’s somewhat of a misnomer. his first half of the season was deadly. after the all-star break is when he crumbled and started his strings of average starts.
ellisburks
Incorrect use of the word misnomer.
notsureifsrs
which is hilarious
Havok9120
Even first half, his starts that year were characterized with huge days for the offense. And many of his usual problems were still floating around.
MB923
He didn’t really have Huge Problems (or any problems for that matter) in the first half
ERA was 3.65, K/BB ratio was 3.14, opponents only hit .239 off of him, WHIP of 1.18
Clearly for the year though, his problem was Yankee Stadium. 4.66 ERA there as opposed to a 3.47 road ERA. Also his HR/9 was 1.69 at home and just 0.64 away
Super_Hero
He had the highest ERA of any allstar pitcher in that allstar game. Run support had everything to do with him making the allstar. not saying he didn’t pitch well but there was better pitchers that didn’t get selected
Havok9120
Another good piece, Mike.