“you have a blue chip pitcher and you want to take a chance on asking too much of him.”
does that sink in at all?

it was easy to predict because because it was early in the season and hughes did not have a pitch count base down. he had been on an 85 pitch count limit in the minor leagues as is standard for that time of the year. he was losing velocity on every pitch over 75 in his first start. he was way below his normal velocity. if he would have been called up even a month later he would have been stretched out to more pitches. whenever a pitcher goes beyond what he is used to doing, there is the potential for problems.
hughes’ body was not in shape to be throwing pitches with that kind of intensity on the 83 pitch when he was hurt. if you don’t understand that a pitcher throws with his whole body, you don’t understand the biomechanics of pitching.
one of the problems with arguments on blogs is that the experience of the commentors is left out. from what you are saying , i’m deducing that you have no experience with pitchers at all. i’m also deducing that you haven’t read much about pitching either.
so what knowlege base are you basing your points on? you seem to have no actual baseball experience with pitchers and you don’t seem like you have studied pitching like say will carrol of baseball prospectus.
it was an easy to predict mistake rushing hughes. cashman made the decision. he was wrong and he’s burned a blue chip pitcher. torre and guidry should have known better too.
it would have been no problem if hughes was pulled after 65-70 pitches. that’s was his body limit at that point in his conditioning.
so i guess i should amend my criticism of cashman and extend it to torre and guidry.
and now, the yankee conditioning staff injures him again with the ankle while recovering from the hamstring. how many more of hughes’ body parts have to blow out before it dawns on you that maybe the yankee conditioning program is not doing it’s job. cashman is in charge of that program. you do the math.

Get back on your armchairs, GM-wannabes.

Basically, you’re arguing Hughes’ hamstring wasn’t major-league ready. And now because of that, his ankle wasn’t major-league ready. Next thing you know he’s going to get a nose bleed and his nose won’t be major-league ready and it was allll because they called him up too early. Bull. If it was an arm problem, I’d agree with you. But because it was just another hamstring injury to another Yankee player, par for the course, all of that is complete nonsense. Unless you want to argue that Mussina wasn’t major league ready during his start. Didn’t think so.

Hindsight, Hughes was major league ready, and while they would have preferred to keep him in Scranton for a few more starts, there was no question it wasn’t a bad decision. Listen, if you want someone to blame, blame Cashman for hiring Marty Miller, a guy who hadn’t worked in baseball for years. But enough of this ridiculous “this is all because they called him up early” crap. It’s been debunked again and again, and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Troll logic.

With Clemens coming in and Clip as the 5th starter, we are fine with starters.
What we need are relievers.

Option down DeSalvo and let’s get Britton up here to throw a few and see how he does. If it doesn’t work, we send him back down.