Regarding Phil Hughes: sure would like to see the med reports concerning his rotator cuff group. Many pitchers and position players lose velocity once they have scar tissue build up in that region of the shoulder. Back in the day around when Juan Gonzalez and others started trying to be body builders instead of position players, they'd hit the weights incorrectly and end up turning their throwing arms into almost useless arms from working their rotator group incorrectly.
Pitchers can build up scar tissue just by stepping open and throwing with their arms instead of their whole body. Pitching arm health and hip rotation go hand in hand. On average, pitchers can get away with throwing with just their arms for about two years before scar tissue builds up and loss of velocity starts to creep in. That's why I wasn't too high on Todd Van Poppel coming out of high school back in the day. I'll have to find some decent footage of Phil Hughes to analyze his pitching mechanics because I'm just going on speculation and experience to guesstimate his reduced velocity. For his sake, I hope it's not scar tissue that's built up in rotator group.
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