About week or 2 ago I was listening to 1050 and they were having people call in to get their opinion on who the Yankees 5 starters should be, because at the time there were a lot of questions about the rotation outside of CC and Colon. Many listeners said that they didn't trust Hughes to come back to the form he had in the 1st half of last season.
Fast forward 2 weeks, with Garcia on the DL, Hughes has been looking very good. In his past 4 appearances, Hughes is 3-1, that blemish however, came in a bullpen appearance against the Red Sox, a game the Yankees wanted, badly. But since, Hughes has looked good and last nights game he was topping out his fastball at 93 mph, more importantly he consistently stayed in the 91 mph range. But what made last nights performance impressive, was the mix of change-up's, cutters and the occasional curveball.
With Colon looking like he is running out of gas, AJ being AJ, and Nova being very inconsistent, Hughes is arguably the Yankees 2nd best option behind CC. That's a huge turn around from two weeks ago when Yankee's fans wanted Hughes to be optioned back to Triple A. Hughes will be coming into the post-season fresh and I believe will have a huge impact on what Girardi's rotation for the playoffs will look like. Remember folks, in the playoffs pitching wins games, just ask Andy Pettitte.
last night Hughes was facing no names who swung at everything. i gotta see him against boston before i judge him
ReplyDeleteThe Boston stuff doesn't work because you could argue that every offense in the A.L is bad. The Rangers, Yankees and Red Sox are literally the only good lineups in the league
ReplyDeleteCC faced the same lineup the night before and didn't look to good, he gave up 4 runs on 10 hits.. Hughes have up 1R on 2hits he's looked good u can't deny that
ReplyDeleteYour right though, he does have tougher tests to past, BUT RIGHT NOW he is the 2nd best option behind CC and he has been looking nice.
ReplyDeletei would take SUPER NOVA over Hughes right now, and possibly Colon over both
ReplyDeletewhats a white knight? is that come kind of racist term ? you calling the Yankees racist? redsox are the racists, take a look at their team for last 9 years. White Knights.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll take the three of them over Burnett. The point is that Hughes has looked really good against everyone in his past few starts. So has Nova. Colon has looked bad and so has A.J. None of this matters since Garcia is hurt anyway.
ReplyDelete" Hughes will be coming into the post-season fresh and I believe will have a huge impact on what Girardi's rotation for the playoffs will look like"
ReplyDeleteHELLO WHERES YOUR WHITE KNIGHT NOW ??? JUST LIKE I PREDICTED....HE FAILED AGAINST BOSTON...HES GARBAGE, HES A COURT JESTER NOT THE WHITE KNIGHT. HES DONE. FAILED. NADA.
Yankees have brown knights!!
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