Hughes Getting Very Comfortable in the Pen
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 7/1/2009 — Here's a quote from Hughes about his new role, via Peter Abraham : "I feel like I have more control, my stuff plays up a little bit," Hughes said. "It feels like a good fit for me. Who's to say what the future will be? Maybe this is what I do for the rest of my career." Still, Hughes sees the ...

Around the Yankee Universe: Phil Hughes edition
pinstripealley.com 6/30/2009 — More photos » by Tony Dejak - AP Phil Hughes Browse more photos » OK, so when do you guys start screaming that Phil Hughes should be the 8th inning guy? or ... gulp! ... ...

Hughes Becoming a Weapon Out of the Pen
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 6/22/2009 — From Anothony DiComo : And according to Girardi, he can. For the Yankees, perhaps the brightest spot in this weekend's series loss to the Marlins was Hughes, who so impressed his manager with a perfect inning of relief Saturday that Girardi was prepared to use Hughes out of the 'pen again the ...

Happy 4th!
boogiedownbaseball.blogspot.com 7/4/2009 — Sorry for not posting after yesterday's game. My friend Joe and I took a little road trip to Erie, PA to check out the Trenton Thunder. They crushed the Seawolves 10-1. I also got Jesus Montero's autograph. Good times. Yesterday's game in a nutshell: A.J. was again the man. Hughes is in, ...

Around the Yankee Universe: Phil's the man
pinstripealley.com 7/18/2009 — More photos » by Bill Kostroun - AP New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, left, comes out to the mound to talk with pitcher Phil Hughes during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers ...

Phil Hughes to assume eighth inning role?
lennysyankees.com 7/1/2009 — Joe Girardi continues to call Brian Bruney the setup man on this team, but after last night’s blown save in the eighth, Bruney might be degraded to middle relief. After watching Phil Hughes continue to dominate the sixth and seventh innings, it seems he could potentially replace Bruney for the ...

Phil Hughes A Reliever?
nybaseballdigest.com 7/3/2009 — In 1995, when Mariano Rivera was a rookie, he came to the big club from the minors as a starter. The results were mixed, to be kind. In 10 starts, batters hit .306 of Rivera and 8HRs to the tune of a 5.94 ERA. The following year, new manager Joe Torre put Rivera in the pen. Rivera responded by ...

Stop being so good, Hughes.
behindthemoat.wordpress.com 7/10/2009 — I would never wish failure on a Yankee. Even if I perhaps do not care for a particular player, or if their success might otherwise hurt my fantasy team’s chances, I still don’t wish failure on them. However, Phil Hughes’s success is scaring me a bit. Why? Well, quite ...

Do Yankees need to designate a setup man?
lennysyankees.com 7/4/2009 — The Yankees have had the luxury in recent years to possess more than one dominant reliever, which enabled them to finish close games at a high success rate. The 2009 Yankees bullpen lacks a guy like Tom Gordon or Joba Chamberlain, and it might do more harm than good to designate one reliever as ...

All the pieces could be coming together
soxandpinstripes.com 6/29/2009 — Often times on this site we have talked about how Baseball has many twists and turns throughout the span of a 162 game season. It's impossible to know anything is for certain. The majority of predictions we make in the preseason will look foolish by November if we only went back and checked up ...

Is Hughes replacing Bruney as eighth-inning guy? — Newsday.com - Yankees 7/4/2009
Joe Girardi repeated the phrase several times Tuesday night in explaining his decision to go with Brian Bruney in the eighth inning, even after Phil Hughes breezed through the Mariners in nine pitches in the seventh. "Bruney's our eighth-inning guy,'' ...

DEFENSE PITI-PHIL IN UGLY LOSS — NY Post: Sports 7/4/2009
> PHILADELPHIA -- Want to get better in a hurry? Play the Mets. That strategy certainly worked for the Phillies here last night as they handed manager Jerry Manuel's injury-ravaged club a 7-2 whipping at sold-out Citizens Bank Park.  ...

GIRARDI HAS COKE AND A SMILE — NY Post: Sports 7/4/2009
> The Yankees haven't discovered the secret formula for Coke, just maybe one that involves Coke. It's Phil Coke to face tough lefty hitters in the eighth inning and somebody not named Brian Bruney -- preferably Phil Hughes -- to face the ...

Playing Omar: Players Who Could Save The Mets Season — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/4/2009
With the first half of the 2009 baseball season reaching an end, it is time to start looking towards the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, as the the contenders begin to deperate themselves from the pretenders. With the New York Mets, the story for ...

Yankee Stadium Review — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/4/2009
On Thursday, July 2, I went to the new Yankee Stadium for the first time. Overall, I was much more pleased than I originally thought. I had expected much different things from the stadium, and I will describe everything that I saw, and explain all of ...