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 [...]

Can someone explain to me why Joba has the only arm that needs to be protected?  I know Andy Pettitte may not be the team next year… and as I have written the last couple of days that certainly makes a difference in how teams protect a player.  But, Andy was with the team last [...]

Yesterday, Joba was pulled from his regularly scheduled start after three innings. It had bee decided days before that no matter the state of the game, he would go three and no more.  Since the earlier plan to have Chamberlain skip starts throughout the rest of the season didn’t work, they have moved to one [...]

Chien Ming Wang will not be going down to AAA, not that that would be a good idea anyway.  He’s a good enough pitcher that he could fix things against AAA batters and come back and be exactly where he is today.  He needs to work this out against batters that can really tell him [...]

Joba Chamberlain left the Yankees game with stiffness in his shourlder.  Chances are this is nothing, maybe he was a little dehydrated in the Texas heat, but it also shows it doesn’t matter how careful you are with a guy, something can still happen.
Last week, when the Yanks acquired Damarso Marte and Xavier Nady from [...]