So… Again, sorry for the overreaction. I just didn’t think ortforshort’s comment was an indictment of the overall talent in the Yanks’ system, I thought he was referring to SWB and simply saying “awesome, nice job by these guys, but I don’t think there’s a lot of future impact MLBers playing at SWB.” And I don’t think ortforshort deserved to be told he/she was talking out of his ass and all that. He’s entitled to his opinion, and deserves to be ripped if he comes around saying “an 8th inning reliever is more important than a front-end starter” or some other such nonsense, but I don’t think he said anything so horrible. People shouldn’t be told their stupid and insulted just because they say something you don’t agree with.

And as far as Hughes goes in particular… Look, I’m a huge Hughes fan and I’ll be surprised and really disappointed if things don’t work out for him… But I think it’s, unfortunately, relatively reasonable for people to question his future at this point. I don’t think it’s fair to write him off, and I’m in his corner and think he’s going to be great… but, right now, I just think it’s ok for those people to, at most, question his future. And I don’t like how people get absolutely decimated on these boards for asking those questions or having their doubts.

Don’t dismiss someone for disagreeing with the general consensus here. A little argument and disagreement is healthy and the conversation on this blog would be worse-off without it.