Cricket was Phillip's life, and we as a family shared that love of the game with him," Clarke read, before thanking the medical staff and holding back tears as left the room. Aged just 19, he is the youngest player to score a hundred in the showpiece game Picture: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images, February 2009 Hughes is handed his first cap by Australia for the game against South Africa at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, replacing Matthew Hayden (he is pictured alongside debutants Marcus North and Ben Hilfenhaus). Philip Joseph Hughes...Twitter: @PJHughes45...2004 graduate from Foothill High School in Santa Ana, CA, where he owns the school record for most career wins (23) and ranks third in school history with 182 strikeouts...named the 2004 Most Valuable Player with a 9-1 record and a 0.69 ERA...was honored as a pre-season All-American prior to his junior year and set school single-season records with 12 wins and a 0.64 ERA that season...tossed a perfect game on April 8, 2004 in a 9-0 win over Laguna Hills...named to the Los Angeles Times' 2004 All-Star team...prior to being drafted, was named by Baseball America as the top right-handed pitcher in the Orange County region...was primarily a third baseman until his sophomore year of high school... received the 2010 Ben Epstein-Dan Castellano "Good Guy" Award from the New York chapter of the BBWAA...participated in Twins Winter Caravan in 2015.

Arizona...According to Elias, became the fourth pitcher in major league history to follow a season with four-or-fewer wins with 16-plus wins the following season (minimum 25 starts); Frank Mountain (4-21 in 1882, 26-33 in 1883), Jerry Koosman (3-15 in 1978, 20-13 in 1979) and Matt Keough (2-17 in 1979, 16-13 in 1980); Koosman similar to Hughes: three wins in 1978 for New York-NL then won 20 in 1979 with Minnesota...Finished the year with 16 wins and just 16 walks allowed...according to Elias, just three pitchers in the modern era registered as many or more wins as walks while winning at least 15 games: Christy Mathewson did it twice (25 wins, 21 walks in 1913 and 24 wins, 23 walks in 1914) and Slim Sallee (21 wins, 20 walks in 1919)...Pitched 6.0-plus innings in 26 of 32 starts and 7.0-plus in 19 starts...one of five pitchers in AL with 19 7.0-plus games (David Price - 26, Felix Hernandez - 24, Corey Kluber - 21, Jon Lester - 19)...Twins went 20-12 in his starts...Ranked third best control in AL in Baseball America's annual tools survey, behind David Price and Hisashi Iwakuma...Given the Calvin R. Griffith Award for Most Valuable Twin and the Joseph W. Haynes Award for Twins Pitcher of the Year, both awards voted on by the Twin Cities Chapter of the BBWAA...Restructured and signed a new five-year contract extension December 22, covering 2015-19.

Minnesota Twins sent RHP Phil Hughes on a rehab assignment to Fort Myers Miracle. Philip Joseph Hughes...Twitter: @PJHughes45...2004 graduate from Foothill High School in Santa Ana, CA, where he owns the school record for most career wins (23) and ranks third in school history with 182 strikeouts...named the 2004 Most Valuable Player with a 9-1 record and a 0.69 ERA...was honored as a pre-season All-American prior to his junior year and …

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