Baseball’s Savior

I know the Yankees would like to tread carefully when it comes to Phillip Hughes, but he may just be too good to keep him off the big league club in 2007.  He tore up Double A and he’ll be 20 years old when spring training starts up and there’s no doubt this kid could compete for the fifth spot in the rotation.  The only thing that might stop him is a resurgance by Carl Pavano or the Yankees signing Roger Clemens.

I like the fact that the team is being tentative though.  They also have to find room for Igawa so the back end of the rotation is filling up with solid competition.  If I have to guess, Hughes starts the season in Triple A but an injury or a poor performance by one of the teams starters has him up by the All Star break.