Turns out Phil Hughes really is hurt. After a day of speculation that maybe the Yankees put him on the DL simply to give him some time to work out some kinks in his mechanics, Joe Girardi revealed on Mike and the Mad Dog that Phil Hughes actually has a stress fracture in his rib, and not a strained oblique as originally reported. Girardi said that Hughes will not throw a baseball for four weeks and is not likely to return until mid-June at the earliest.

Yikes...