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Playing with the Numbers: Pitch counts

By David Srinivasan
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Before I go into my normal spiel, I'd like to break a rule. My editors don't want me to talk too much about prospects in "Playing With The Numbers" because I have free rein to write about the little guys in "Minor Achievements" each week. Well, we've come upon someone worth breaking that rule for. … If this were a movie, this prospect would be a girl so wonderful, you'd wave toodles to Mummy and Daddy's trust fund to run off into the sunset with her. Her name is Phil Hughes. Hughes was awf ...

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