Re: Hughes to pitch Thursday vs. Blue Jays

On Apr 23, 5:06 pm, Thermos <cfb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
BadgerBC wrote:
On Apr 23, 4:26 pm, EGK <m...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 23 Apr 2007 15:47:22 -0700, BadgerBC

Yup. He had protected him all these years and now this. However,
there are a lot of sabermetricians who'd been advocating this for some
time now as you know. And I read recently that Jim Callis thought the
Yanks should've promoted him last fall. Cashman better caution Gator
and Joe about his workload. The problem is Phil's never had a stretch
of failure which is the reason why I wonder how he'd adjust after the
inevitable struggle, and I have no idea how good his changeup is at
this point. This is the worst way to begin his ML career IMHO.
I can understand your point completely about Hughes but also read your
response to me earlier today about Wright. Are you saying that the only
reason it was ok to do this with him was because he's older?

That and the fact that Wright has struggled at young age and
rebounded.

Well, and the fact that Hughes, by succeeding more at an earlier age,
projects to be a much better finished product, and its foolish to use
something with that potential value as a stopgap.


I agree. If ALL goes as planned for some people have been making
comparisons to Mark Prior (before injuries) that seemed more realistic
to me.

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