Joba Chamberlain has 5 more starts left this season and his next start will come on Sunday against the White Sox (on regular rest). After that, I’m not sure what the plan will be, exactly, as Joe Girardi noted that Joba will still be given “extra rest” as the season winds down in order to keep his innings in check. His schedule will probably be contingent upon a number of factors (e.g., the team’s performance, etc.). If Joba were to start on regular rest after the White Sox game, I believe he’d face Toronto, Tampa Bay, Toronto (again) and LA.
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Well Joba had good stuff last night so it was a comlete shame to see his lack of control, he was hitting 96 on several occasions, he was no stranger to 95 and 93-94 was where he was living for the most part but the lack of any kind of control killed him. Hopefully starting on regular rest will straighten out the control problems but allow him to keep the heater up.
I loved Joba since the beggining in ’07, it pains me to see him like this…I don’t care what he did in junior college/college, etc., he is more effective, as middle reliever and one day as our closer.
Granted with Wang going down and Hughes filling the 8th, as of late, I comprehend you can’t alter anything now.
You are dead wrong! He has everything to be a starter and a dominate one at that! I love how every time he has a shut out 7 inning game he is the next Cy Young but as soon he has a bad game (and I can directly link the loss of control on the 10 days rest) he is the worst starter of all time and should be a reliever. New York is so stupid with it’s expectations sometimes!
I believe the biggest mistake made with Joba (although necessary for the team at the time) was calling him up to be in the pen in the same year he was drafted. You set him up to not be allowed to be sent to the minors because he did so well in that role and you also gave a bunch of people who don’t know what they are talking about a look at Joba in the pen and everyone just assumed he was a reliever from the begging who the Yankees were trying to make a starter and at the first sign of trouble everyone wanted him back in the pen. The correct way to handle Chamberlain would have been to leave him in the minors and allow him to build up innings as a starter, learn his mechanics better, and learn how to control his pitches more effectively in Scranton with less pressure on every single pitch being scrutinized by everyone in the league. Had he taken that route I really think he would have been called up late last year or he would have started this year on the team in the rotation and he would be a lot more dominating more consistently and you would not hear one person saying he was a set up man. No one seems to understand that he has had really no minor league innings at all and he never was able to learn in a learning environment, instead he has had to learn in a winning environment where struggling and normal bumps in the road that happen with all young starters aren’t allowed. It was a dumb part for player development to call Chamberlain when they did, but they did it because the team needed to win and that’s the price you have to pay as a prospect in New York.
Last I checked David Price is having a much worse first year as a starter and no one is calling for Price to the Pen and Tampa is a team with no closer, I see Joba with just as much potential if not more than David Price (Joba actually has 4 pitches) so if everyone is patient with David why not Chamberlain? Because he plays in New York? Because he is right handed? These aren’t good enough reasons.
I think it is clear Joba has always had problems repeating his delivery even from inning to inning in some games but you can correct that and get him a real feel for his delivery but I don’t think there is anyway he can do that if he is waiting 8 or 10 days in between starts, he needs to make his regular 5 day starts in order to get his delivery down and keep it down for the future. Anyone who is saying it is stupid to give up on Hughes as a starter and yet calling Joba a terrible starter is just ridiculous, Joba is the better player clear cut!