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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.
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Thank you for the correction. As such, it turns out that from JUNE 1st on, the most important months of the season, Hughes' ERA was actually
over a 5, and that doesn't even factor in the fact that he looked completely lost in the playoffs.
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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.
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Except for the fact that when you compare it to other AL East starters' age 24 seasons, it actually is.
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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.
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Tampa's "big steps back" still leaves them holding, at worst, the second best rotation in the division, and the new bullpen isn't chicken feed by any means. They lost Crawford, but his eventual replacement has been in-house all along. It'd be foolish to write them off, much less out of contention.