Joba Chamberlain will be joining the Yankees’ starting rotation soon. As part of the transition to get his pitch count up Joba pitched the 8th and 9th inning last night, throwing 35 pitches.
“This is the timetable that we had set,” Girardi said. “It’s going to (take) him a while to (get) where he’s going be - a hundred pitches. But this is what we had planned all along, and we’re sticking to our plan that we talked about over the winter and in spring training.” Sorry Joe, but this has Hank Steinbrenner written all over it. Welcome to the Yankees.
This is actually good news, the Yankees need a jolt to their starting rotation. Joba may have to make a start or two in AAA (that will be fun to watch, after spending this time in the majors he should tear up the minor leagues.).
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