On their radio show this morning, Boomer and Carton were speaking out against the plan for Joba Chamberlain’s next start. Joba is not starting on Sunday as scheduled, and will pitch Wednesday instead. The morning guys, while always entertaining, are also frequently woefully unprepared, and they decided that this meant Sergio Mitre would start against Boston next weekend. However, this is clearly not the case, and actually misses the entire point of the exact manner in which the Yankees manipulated the rotation. Letus take a look at the setup for the next 10 games.
Thrusday v. Seattle- CC
Friday v. Seattle- Pettitte
Saturday v. Seattle- Mitre
Sunday v. Seattle- Gaudin
Monday v. Oakland- AJ
Tuesday v. Oakland- CC
Wednesday v. Oakland- Joba
Thursday off day- skip Mitre and Gaudin
Friday v. Boston- Pettitte
Saturday v. Boston- AJ
Sunday v. Boston- CC
The Yankees are using the off day to skip Joba without any sort of reprecussions. In those 10 games, the 5th starter types only pitch twice, no more than you would expect if the Yankees had left things as is. Instead, they get Joba some rest, do not give Mitre/Gaudin any extra starts, and line up their three hottest pitchers for the Boston series. Seems like a well conceived plan to me. Too bad half of New York thinks Sergio Mitre is making the Sunday night start against Boston.
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Thanks for clarifying this. I heard Boomer and Carton this morning, and thought that something didn’t seem right about it. Of course, you can say that for a lot of their show…
I just could not figure out their problem. They knew AJ and CC were back to back against Seattle, but for some reason decided Mitre would follow AJ in Boston. Makes no sense.
I also read an article from Bob Klapisch last night that made it seem like Joba not starting in Boston was the end of the world. Andy has been one of the best pitchers in baseball since the break, so it’s not a problem to see him go against Boston. As you said, it’s not like they’re throwing a scrub in there.
I was listening to B & C this morning and heard their rant. I sent them an “instant access” message stating that AJ and CC would be pitching on normal rest on Saturday and Sunday against Boston, but didn’t hear them make any corrections. It was interesting that Evan Roberts in his opening monologue did state that the latest “Joba rules” had set the Yankees up for the Boston series with Petitte, AJ and CC.
Evan is usually prepared for his show. You will not hear him say something blatantly false very often.
So I posted it yesterday and never saw a response… has anyone heard it from a Cashman or Girardi type that the “Joba rules” expire in the playoffs and that none of his post season innings count against the 150 limit?
Yup. I’m not in front of a computer now, but I think you can find it in today or yesterdays daily news online. The blog shysterball had a link to it today, I believe.
I’m not sure how I feel about that… I like the idea of CC, AJ, Pettitte and Joba as an unstoppable playoff force with a pen of Ace, Coke, Hughes, Robertson, Rivera, Gaudin and we will see about Bruney, but it just seems like the most “stressful” innings that Joba will throw will be the playoff innings. So are we to expect that we care about Joba’s future over winning this year until we have to win this year in which case screw his future? I don’t get the two different sides.
I’ll put up a post on it, and we can discuss it.
That’s a good idea! Truthfully I see both sides of the coin but it just seems like they are saying one thing and then doing another… If he pitches 150-160 innings in the regular season and then adds another 10-20 innings in the post season isn’t that 170-180 innings total? Seems to me the whole point of moving his starts back is so he doesn’t have more than 50 or 60 extra innings added from his total last year (100 innings) but if he pitches well in the post season and we end up winning a world series he could end up notching close to 200 innings anyway and you have added 100 extra innings anyway, so what was the point of skipping regular season starts? What is the difference in 180 and 190 innings? I would just like a real explanation as to what Cashman and Girardi are thinking…