Joba Chamberlain didn’t win the starting job this year.  Its seems, from this Pat Borzi post, that there is some chance he might get a shot next year- but that is more waffling.  Why so much back and forth on this one player?
Here is my theory, and of course it is just a theory. Many [...]

Well, he may not have gotten the win, but he did win the 5th starter job for the Yankees.  It seems the right choice, as Joba is much better at throwing harder for a shorter period of time.  This Pat Borzi piece though indicates that Chamberlain may not be a shoe-in for the bullpen or [...]

I always like the interview pieces where someone is asked to shre some perspective about something.  Marc Carig does a fine job of asking some unusual questions of Joba Chamberlain, and since you get Joba’s own words, you get to know him just a little bit.
Why did the Joba rules exist in the first place?  [...]

Major news organizations are reporting this morning that the Yankees have acquired Javier Vasquez for Melky Cabrera (Other players may be involved as well, though differing reports are out there.)  One had to think one of the outfielders from the World Series was going, with the acquisition of Granderson- and by that, I mean someone [...]

Throught the light of yesterday’s events, it seems that Joba is indeed “not ruined” by the Joba Rules.  That’s good news.  WFAN’s Sweeny Murti has a nice post, with a good sound clip from Joe Girardi, about the effects of the Rules.  The interesting thing is that despite the protection the team placed on Joba [...]