Wednesday, September 17, 2008
MLB.com: Hughes makes return to Yankees
NEW YORK—High expectations accompanied right-hander Phil Hughes as he entered the 2008 season. After he posted a 3-0 record with a 2.73 ERA last September, Yankees fans, management and Hughes himself all held the pitcher to a tall standard.
But things didn’t go as planned for the 22-year-old righty.
No, they didn’t. However Hughes finishes the season, it’s tough to think of 2008 as anything but a disaster, but let’s also remember that last year he was considered one of the best prospects in the game and his arm was not injured. While my expectations for Hughes have been tempered somewhat by his ineffectiveness and injury this season, I still look forward to seeing what he can do over the rest of 2008 and heading into 2009.
In other news, Jeter makes history, but Yanks fall. Congratulations to Jeter for passing Lou Gehrig in Yankee Stadium hits, silly as the record is. Unfortunately for him, it looks like Bernie Williams’s all-time Yankee Stadium double play record will elude his grasp.
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