GOODYEAR, Arizona – Jared Hughes’ top baseball memory was in 2013 when National League Most Valuable Player Andrew McCutchen was introduced before the first playoff game in PNC Park history.



The Pirates ended a 20-year playoff drought and the sell-out crowd, mostly dressed in black, showered their hero with applause. Hughes, now a Red, was a Pirate that night. That memory will forever live with him.



Hughes’ second-best baseball memory may have come last week at Field 2 of the Cleveland Indians Spring Training Complex here in Arizona, with just a few family members, team officials, scouts and random fans watching a B Game between the Reds and Indians.



It was there that Hughes was getting in work along with some other big-league pitchers like Amir Garrett and Lucas Sims.



Hughes sat with several other relievers in a makeshift bullpen of plastic chairs pulled under the shade of a small tree awaiting their turn. They watched the game...