Thursday, May 31, 2007
MLB.com: Yankees’ Hughes sprains ankle
TORONTO—Phil Hughes, one of baseball’s top pitching prospects, has a Grade 3 sprain of the left ankle that is expected to set the hurler back an additional four to six weeks in his efforts to rejoin the Yankees’ Major League roster.
Hughes, a 20-year-old right-hander, rolled his ankle while performing conditioning exercises Friday at Legends Field in Tampa, Fla., where he was rehabilitating a strained left hamstring.
The Grade 3 diagnosis is considered the most severe possible strain, in which one or more ligaments are stretched and completely torn. The Yankees made Hughes’ results public Wednesday, prior to the club’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre.
Wonderful news. One has to wonder what this season is going to do as far as hindering Hughes’s development. The Yankees are also watching him accrue major league service time while not helping them. Luckily, these seem like injuries which should not be a concern going forward, provided they wait until he’s completely healthy before getting him back out there.
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