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07
10
2008
Hughes starting AzFL opener today
Posted by: Mike A. in Asides, Minors. Tagged: Phil HughesVia the Arizona Republic, Phil Hughes will toe the rubber later today for the Peoria Javelinas when the Arizona Fall League season begins. First pitch is scheduled for 12:35 local time, which is 3:35 on the east coast. Here’s the league scoreboard, you should be able to follow along on Gameday (the link will show up as we get closer to game time). Austin Jackson will likely be patrolling CF behind Hughes.
HWB was off last night, hence no DotF.
Update (3:15pm): Here’s the Gameday link. Hughes starting, Ajax batting third & playing CF, Kevin Russo batting ninth & playing the hot corner.
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C’mon Mike. We all know Hughes is a bust because he can’t throw 100mph. Why do you bother?
Phil Hughes = a weak little girl
Ian Kennedy = a single celled organism
On behalf of weak little girls and single-celled organisms, I resent this!
Are you two married?
No, are you proposing?
A chick who is funny? Maybe.
Just wait till she starts making fun of you. Especially after seeing you naked.
Wedding plans cancelled.
Just because someone doesn’t throw 100mph, you call them a bust? Hmmm, so I guess that 80-90% of major league pitchers are busts because they can’t throw 100mph. Hughes is only 22/23 and hasn’t pitch a whole year in the majors yet.
I’m sorry but your reasoning for calling someone a bust is the absolute dumbest reason I have ever heard.
You need to tune-up your sarcasm-o-meter, buddy
I’m better at knowing when people are being sarcastic by tones of a voice. Hard to tell with typed words especially in threads where I have seen some crazy things said before. My bad.
He had his shot Mike, and he blew it, he’s a BUST!
All seriousness, I fuckin tight, cuz by the time he’s pitching, I,ll be at work.
Is Humberto going to start or relieve in Arizona?
Humberto’s future with the Yankees is in the bullpen.
Which would be why they would start him, to build up strength.
Phil Hughes vs. Matt Weiters & Justin Smoak …
This might be a tough debut.
Surely you mean for them?
Hughes has pitched in an ALDS, Smoak was drafted only a couple months ago.
Fun Fact:
Weiters, Hughes and Smoak are all born the same year. By the Weiters is older than Hughes, albeit only 2 months.
Actually 1 month wieters is older than Hughes.
You know who else was born the same year as Phil Hughes? Johan Santana.
No, wait a sec, Santana’s actually seven years older. My bad.
Mike,
What is Kevin Russo’s ceiling?
It has been my understanding that the AzFL is a showcase for premier talent or at least impact-caliber talent, and there definitely wasn’t much buzz surrounding him. . .
Care to enlighten me?
Shouldn’t every pitcher in the Yankees organization try to learn a cutter so that Mo can spit some knowledge on them?
I mean, yeah, Mo’s probably just God wearing a Panamanian suit, but theres got to be something more than that… right?
I’m pretty sure Phil is at 70 innings (or thereabouts) on the season between the minors and the big leagues. How many, approximately, should he be expected to pitch at AZFL? I’m trying to figure out around what his innings cap will be next year
35-40
I wouldn’t expect that many. The high # last year(per Chad Jennings) was 29 & 1/3
Isn’t the whole innings-progression theory based on limiting any innings-jumps over the pitcher’s season of highest usage, as opposed to his most recent season? (i.e. Approximately 30 innings jump over his highest single-season innings total, not his most recent season’s innings total.)
Interesting, you definitely might be right. I hadn’t considered that, so then his innings cap would basically be the same as last season, as well as Joba’s
If a pitcher’s innings total is close to what it was the year before, it seems to be ok to use the higher of the two totals as the basis. It’s not really talked about much what you should do when you’ve got wide fluctuations in the innings counts.
Hughes pitched 110 last year and something like 70 this year. Skipping the fall league and trying to have him pitch 140+ next season sounds like a bad idea. With the fall league, he’d probably hit at least 100, making 140 a nice target.
Off on a tangent here, but I’m curious how Liriano does going forward. I’ve seen it brought up that pitchers returning from Tommy John surgery rarely throw 200 IP in their first season, which he did. Logistically speaking, you’d have to have his exact scenario play out to do that - have Tommy John at the end of one season, miss the next season, then be ready for game action at the start of the next season. Most pitchers return from the surgery mid-season, making 200 IP an impossibility.
Also, don’t forget about his playoff starts when tallying his innings.
Anyone know of any way to watch AzFL games online? Thanks
As a Yankees Fan I have always have this thought: When it comes to prospects We SUCK big Time. Hughes is a Mini Sterling Hitchcock, he’s way overrated. In fact he hasn’t done anything to merit all the fuss and buss that he constantly get from the media. Another mediocre and immature prospect is Kennedy, who has been more of a Jared Wright than anything else. Realistically speaking I think it’s time for the New York Yankees to start emulating other MLB teams such as the Rays and YES the Red Sox. For example we already knew back in august that we weren’t going anywhere, so why not start auditioning prospects for next year. Another issue that bothers me is how the media still treats Cashman as if he weren’t responsible for creating this mess we have become. Last winter he refused to part with Cabrera and Kennedy for Johan Santana. In the summer he was reluctant to part with Hughes for Sabathia. He’s an average GM at best, most of the other GMs often get creative when it comes to making trade and signing free agents. If the Yankees don’t stop acting like the Knicks, like MSG the new Yankee stadium won’t see a championship in years to come, probably decades. They should try to sign Burnett and Sabathia at all cost. If Peavy is available why not try to acquire him for a package that revolves around Hughes. Trade Cano for a very good defensive first baseman and a very good utility player. In the outfield they should try to acquire David De Jesus, move Damon to left, trade Matsui for anything decent, move Nady to right. It’s time to start treating Posada like what he is a mediocre defensive catcher, he should platoon with Molina who handles the defensive duties of the position way better than Posada. Try to sign Manny to be our primary option, I know that it sounds crazy but we need to be realistic When it comes to clutch Hitting A-Rod will never be successful in that aspect. With Joba it has gotten to the idiotic point, Cashman needs to let him know if he’s going to be a reliever or a starter, it’s already ridiculous, they treat him like if he was a museum piece. Another thing that bothers me is Girardi not being blame for the mess that was last season. Ponson and Rasner amounted for 14 loses, Joe Torre used to get creative, just look at the Dodgers. Had Girardi not let those 2 bums pitch so many meaningful games we would’ve have made it. He looked lost many times, Once he let Pettitte pitch till the 6th inning even thought he had allowed 10 runs already. He overused some of the relievers i.e Damaso Marte. It hurts me to say what i’m going to say, Jeter needs to start acting like a real captain, he have you ever heard in the news that he held a meeting in the locker room? We need him to tell this new guys what it means to be a Yankee, Jeter and Damon and Mo were the only Yankees that played like if they cared. They should demand more from A-rod, he’s getting paid all these money to produce when he’s needed to not during the first inning or when the Yankees are winning or losing by a big margin. It really hurts to see Boston acting like the old Yankees, heck even Tampa Bay is playing in October, remember when it used to be all about us around this time of the year, I really miss those days. I can’t argue anymore with Red Sox fans, at this point we can’t use the 26 championships because it has been so long since we last won one.
Oh dear. Someone forgot to take their meds again.
You should stop watching baseball.
I’m not gonna do the obvious response(I’m sure that someone else will). I will however simply say this: the reason that Sterling Hitchcock wasn’t a productive Yankee had a little to do with the fact that he was traded by the Yankees to the Mariners for Tino & Jeff Nelson. Now granted, the Yankees re-aquired him at the deadline in 2001(when he was 30), but I think that the fact that all it cost was Brett Jodie and Darren Blackely, it wasn’t so bad. I think the fact that Yankees turned a failed prospect into a great return, is the REAL thing to take out of him.
You sure you wanna start down the road to insanity that arguing with this clown will lead to?
The only thing worse than an idiot is a long-winded idiot.
Truth is, I think that I would like to. I haven’t argued with a moron in awhile…it’s surprisingly fun for a couple of minutes
People actually read that nonsense?
I tried not to, but it was like a trainwreck - I had to. Gave me a freakin’ headache, too. That boy should learn to use the Return button.
Last winter he refused to part with Cabrera and Kennedy for Johan Santana.
sigh….
He forgot to include Liriano and Nathan.
Hughes should really be working on his secondary pitches here.
So forget results.
Change up would be real useful.
1 at bat, 1 strike out. There’s an out pitch for ya.
Scratch that, he just gave up a singlee. He sucks.
Induced a double-play. GREAT AGAIN!!! YEAAAAA!
I’m at the AFL and Hughes is throwing 94-96 right on the corners. He struck out the first batter on a filthy curve that just froze him also.
Excellent, thanks for the info. Keep the updates coming! AFL Gameday is nice, but sadly it doesn’t provide any information about the pitches…
I don’t know if you got the memo today or not, but, someone named Victor Eisenhauer says that Phil Hughes = Sterling Hitchcock, so you can stop watching now.
Sorry, a MINI Sterling Hitchcock.
lol, nice
Jackson grounded out to third but it was a good swing and he hit it hard. The 3b did a good job scooping up the shot.
You gonna be there the whole time, or just sporadically?
just for a couple of days. I will see them tomorrow again but i doubt any yankees will play.
How do you walk the #9 hitter who is batting .000? I guess this means he sucks again.
Nevermind. I may have overreacted. (great again)
He sucks, while simultaneously also being awesome. Jeez, do I have to explain everything to you??
Is the Chad Tracy in this game = Dbacks’ Chad Tracy?
nah. he’s a C/1B/LF/RF out of Texas. he was only a catcher 2 years ago, and was shifted b/c of their abundance of catching(pure speculation)
Ahh, gotcha. Grazie. Is too confusing with all the same-named people out there!
This Chad Tracy is Jim’s son, ex-Dodgers’ & Pirates’ manager.
Here’s a strange fact about Javelina’s. They are cute and adorable, and could be the next celebrity “in” pet.
It is rumoured that Jessica Alba has one as a pet.
I wouldn’t mind having a Phil Hughes as a pet. You know where one might be obtained?
Like the Javelina, Phil Hughes is also myopic.