So it is another off-season and I live day to day in fear for Phil Hughes. He has a ton of talent and I don't believe he has reached his potential. His best years are ahead of him which makes him a huge commodity on the market. 2013 may be his last season with the Yankees if he isn't traded beforehand. I have a sneaky suspicion he will be traded and it could be as soon as this winter. He'll be 27 next year and will be one of the youngest starting pitchers to hit the market. He may not command a mega-deal but I do believe he could get a significant long term deal with a team.
If he does get traded, I have no idea what to do going forward. I could continue to collect him whichever team he lands on. There are plenty of cards of him with the Yankees to chase so I could stick with that. I guess my fear is he will land with a team I despise like the Red Sox. Then what?
Not sure where this path will go. I'd like to think I would follow Hughes wherever he went rooting for him to succeed even though I hope the team he's on goes down in flames. But I also have to come to terms with the fact that I may not look at him the same way again. What would it look like if he ended up back in the AL East but with Toronto or Baltimore, or worse the Red Sox. I would think Hughes would prefer to play on the West coast which may mean the Angels, ugh.
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Hopefully you don't mind. I was thinking about answering this in the shower. Came out and saw this post so I just had to write it and post this morning. Sent a link here as this is a must read.
Look at the bright side, if he did get traded there is always the chance that less people would be collecting him so there would be less competition getting his cards.
I player collect a guy that never even played for the Red Sox and I don't feel bad about it. He did do a stint as a yankee though and I hate that one of the most expensive cards I have to track down is a triple yankee auto.
I had the same issues with Kurt Suzuki and he ended up getting traded.
My solution... I'll still collect his cardboard. But the one condition is he need to be pictured in his Athletics uniform.
That's quite the conundrum. Have you been collecting Mattingly as a Dodger?
I have been collecting Mattingly as a Dodger. Although there aren't that many of him in a Dodger uniform. I've only seen Heritage. Still, it's a little different when it's an active player vs Retired/Manager. Mattingly still has cards in a Yankee uniform in new product.
I collect about 40+ guys (mostly from the 60's and 70's), no matter what team they're on.
The one exception is Mike Mussina. I'm an O's fan and decided to just get him in and O's uniform. I started collecting him only a couple years ago, so I already knew there was a megaton of cards of him as a Yankee. He fills half a large binder with just Orioles, so I figured the Yanks would be way too much.
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