作者beckseaton (沒有運動會死)
看板NY-Yankees
標題[洋基] Phil Hughes Shows That Patience Pays Off
時間Sat May 15 00:38:06 2010
Take a lesson from this—be patient with young pitchers.
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One thing I’ve heard and read a lot over the past couple of days—people
saying that they were wrong about Phil Hughes.
I’ve read that they didn’t think he could ever be this good and that
they are glad the Yankees held on to him when they had advocated that he
be traded for Johan Santana or Roy Halladay.
Well I’m not here to say I told you so, but I do want to point out that
with young pitchers fans and members of the media are far too impatient.
In six starts this season he is a perfect 5-0 with an amazing 1.38 ERA,
but that wasn’t going to happen right away and that also doesn’t mean
that he is free from any future growing pains. That also doesn’t mean
that more people shouldn’t have seen this coming.
The Yankees saw a lot of potential in Hughes, enough to give him a $1.4
million signing bonus after he was drafted 23rd overall in the 2004 amateur
draft. That alone isn’t reason enough to think that he would make it in
the majors as many draft picks sign for a lot and fizzle out, but it should
tell you the type of talent he was at a very young age.
Hughes also took to the minors very quickly and was often among the
younger players at each level he made it to. That didn’t stop him from
dominating. As a 19-year old he put up a 1.97 ERA in Low-A Charleston, and
then dominated High-A Tampa so quickly that he was promoted to Double-A
Trenton after only 37.2 innings. In Trenton, he dominated too, posting a
2.25ERA over 116 innings at the age of 20.
This is where some people started to doubt him, even though they
shouldn’t have.At 21-years-old, an age where most of his peers are only
just getting drafted, Hughes was rushed through the system faster than
even the two years before. After he pitched only 28.2 innings in Triple-A,
he became the youngest pitcher in major league baseball.
It was at this point, after the 2007 season, that the Yankees nearly traded
Hughes for Santana and this is when many fans had decided that since the
Yankees hung-on to this still very young pitcher he’d better pay off soon.
When he struggled after being thrust into the rotation way too early in 2008,
he was labeled a bust and many fans claimed he would never be successful.
This was clearly unfair, but when Hughes struggled to stay healthy and
continued to struggle in the minors it didn’t matter to most fans. They
hated him mostly because he was not Santana, not an ace, and ignored the fact
that his minor league success predicted that he would eventually pan out.
In reality, he was rushed through the minors and not given enough time
to develop.
Even after he dominated out of the bullpen in 2009, it wasn’t enough to
convince a large portion of fans. There were claims that he couldn’t
stay healthy or that he didn’t have a deep enough repertoire. People
constantly pointed to his poor track record as a starter and his poor
showing in the playoffs last year.
Nobody could have really predicted the start he is off to this season, but
there was reason to believe this was possible. It is a hard adjustment from
the minors to the majors and it takes time. If most fans had their way
though, he wouldn’t have been given that time. Hanging onto and producing
Phil Hughes is probably the single hardest thing general manager Brian
Cashman
has had to do in his career.
Because of that patience though, it is starting to pay off for the Yankees
in a huge way. Take a lesson from this—be patient with young pitchers.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/392094-phil-hughes-shows-patience-pays-off
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推 Tukiyomi :Hughes For CYA！ 05/15 00:39
推 FlyFreedom :懶人包：對向Hughes這種年輕投手多點耐心是可以得到 05/15 00:40
推 FlyFreedom :回報的(比上篇短XD) 05/15 00:41
推 Ally1213 :年輕投手養成計畫 ^.^ 05/15 00:41
推 WinsunChen :Hughes有滿滿的愛，其他農作物在收成前早被交易了 05/15 04:40
推 FlyFreedom :我們的QC門檻比較高 05/15 04:47
推 raygod :位子不缺的新秀本來就是拿來交易的 05/15 04:51
→ Datow :曾被排到前五的新秀 有愛很正常阿 05/15 05:47
→ Datow :現在有些還被當作新秀的人 比Hughes還老勒 05/15 05:49
→ siliver :其他農作物在收成前被交易??那Joba,Gardner這些是?? 05/15 07:37
→ oecgoat :Hughes For CYA！ 05/15 09:13
推 rogergon :本來就是這樣，每個CY都是從小投手開始的吧。 05/15 11:24
推 Sechslee :之前很多先知 看兩年就知道Hughes沒料養不起來呢 05/15 11:41