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NO PHIL HUGHES IN THE ROTATION!
2010 is over. It’s 2011.
The Yankees should not fix what isn’t broke.
2011 Hughes is 0-1 with a 13.94 ERA in 3 starts. He sucks.
Spare me “his stuff”. Yeah, he’s a trading chip to get someone better than him and Nova who’d bump Nova out of the rotation.
His best season is 2009 and his 2010 is overrated. Two good seasons out of five, yeah he’s a real future ace or #2.
What has Hughes done THIS YEAR to earn a return to the rotation? Nothing!
1. 3 starts.
2. You cannot have it both ways. Hughes can’t be bad enough to be ept from the rotation, but good enough to be a trade chip to “get someone better than him.”
3. He was pitching hurt. At his healthiest, Hughes is one of the five best starters on the team.
3 starts. Yeah, right, 13.94 ERA in them, all in 2011, not 2010. Ivan Nova 8-4, 4.12 ERA.
The Yankees could definitely trade Hughes and since when have the Yankees ever traded someone who was superior to the talent acquired in the trade in the Cashman era? So far Ian Kennedy, but no one on here ever thought he’d do as well as he’s doing so far.
Hughes was pitching hurt, so what? Your point? He was not pitching hurt, he was healthy when he sucked then he got hurt, or he wouldn’t have pitched. The Yankees don’t bring one of their top pitching prospects to the mound hurt, so stop making an excuse I doubt Hughes himself would make. He is “one of the five best starters on the team” based on what? His 13.94 ERA in 3 starts this year? Again, 2010 is over, it’s 2011. Deal with it. And deal with that he is worse than anyone in the current rotation.
Again, Ivan Nova is 8-4 with an 4.12 ERA. You want to start Hughes on an IDEA he’ll be good, go ahead. If he blows in his first start back and the Yankees miss the postseason by one game or miss having homefield advantage throughout the AL playoffs if not the entire postseason by one game, Hughes will be the reason (4 shitty starts.)
You sound like Chicken Little, “the sky is falling.” According to your reasoning only CC should be starting this year.
I am not Chicken Little saying “the sky is falling”, I’m someone who unlike you deals in reality who is saying don’t fix what ain’t broke. You sound like another Hughes fanboy who is infatuated with the IDEA he’ll return and be the trade acquisition the Yankees didn’t have to give up anyone for.
You need more than a 9X mph fastball to make it as a starter in MLB especially the AL with the DH and much stronger 7/8/9 batting order and most of all the AL East where you will have to deal with any four from the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays, Blue Jays, and Orioles on a regular basis if you pitch for one of those teams.
Hughes has been blowing away AA and AAA hitters. Let’s see him get out the Red Sox and Rays who are praying the Yankees put him back in the rotation.
How does Hughes in the rotation definitively make the Yankees stronger?
Replacing 8-4, 4.12 ERA Ivan Nova from the rotation with 0-1, 13.94 ERA Phil Hughes would be a ludicrous move considering how great the Yankees have been playing the past three weeks.
You two need to realize 2010 is over and Hughes had a 4.19 ERA last year, hardly ace or #2 caliber ERA. He was a #3 with an ace win total because he had some of the best if not the best run support in the game. How else do you win 18 games with a 4.19 ERA? I distinctly remember Michael Kay once saying Hughes posted an ERA around or just over 5 after his 6-1 start last year.
Btw who on the Red Sox and Rays are afraid of Hughes hmmm? Again they are praying he returns to the Yankees rotation.
At his healthiest and at his true talent level, Phil Hughes is a better pitcher than Ivan Nova. That’s why I want Phil Hughes in the rotation.