Lightning in 2005, after he began training at the Yankees' facility in Tampa. Hughes and his wife, Sarah, were married in November 2016. They welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Harrison, in the fall of 2019. Hughes is an avid sports card collector. Since September 2019, he has recorded and published videos of himself opening packs to YouTube under the channel name Phil’s Pulls. Scouting report Hughes's pitch repertoire has varied over the years, although his main pitch has consistently been a four-seam fastball at 92–95 mph, and he has also relied on a spike curveball in the range of 73–77 mph. He has also developed a mid-80s Vulcan changeup against left-handed hitters, and in mid-2012, he developed a low-80s slider to right-handers. Hughes added a cut fastball in the high 80s as a weapon against right-handers in the 2008 season, and he used the pitch 16% of the time in the 2009 and 2010 seasons: By early 2011, Hughes's velocity on his fastball was down several mph; John Harper of the New York Daily News speculated that Hughes's overuse of the cutter was to blame, not a dead arm. Hughes continued to use the cutter into the start of the 2012 season; he posted a 7.88 ERA in April, throwing the cutter about 12% of the time in this span. In early May, Hughes dropped the cutter from his repertoire, using it only 1.2% of the time for the rest of the year. Hughes throws a disproportionate number of his pitches high in the strike zone and above the zone. Hughes asserts that the hamstring injury he suffered in his rookie year has permanently altered his pitching mechanics: "My stride, and things like that, have never quite been the same." Awards and honors 2004 – 1st team High School All-American P 2006 – New York Yankees Minor League Player of the Year 2007 – AL East Division Top Prospects (Right-handed starting pitcher) 2007 – Baseball America's Top 100 prospects: #4. 2009 – World Series champion 2010 – American League All-Star See also List of Major League Baseball single-inning strikeout leaders References External links Phil Hughes’s Official Blog on YardBarker Phil Hughes’s Old Blog YouTube channel 1986 births Living people New York Yankees players Minnesota Twins players San Diego Padres players Gulf Coast Yankees players Charleston RiverDogs players Tampa Yankees players Trenton Thunder players Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees players Staten