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Originally Posted by Vox Populi
Wait, when did they acquire a second reliable starter? Burnett takes all of the heat, but after April last year, Hughes was putting up extremely comparable numbers to him.
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His May ERA was 3.00. June and July he struggled putting up ERAs above 5. August - 4.22 and September - 4.85 ERA.
He really only had those two terrible months. He was definitely inconsistent but for a 24 year old in the AL East thats not too bad.
And this really goes back to my other point earlier. With a weak rotation the Yankees will still win a ton of games because of their offense. In June and July when he put up ERAs above 5 he went 6-3.
The Yankees rotation isn't flashy or anything but if the back-end guys (Nova and Garcia) put up average stats this rotation will be better than last years. Obviously assuming CC is CC. I mean Garcia alone last year pitched 18 quality starts, Vasquez had 10. Pitching that many decent games will get these guys wins on the Yankees.
I dunno, maybe I'm being a little too confident in the Yankees than I should be but I don't think so. Boston took huge steps forward but TB took big steps back. And I really don't think Baltimore or Toronto are ready to make a run.