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Although we all enjoyed watching Joba Chamberlain come into games and dominate as the set up man for Rivera, it has been announced that Joba Chamberlain will be in the starting rotation to start next spring, and club senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner has confirmed.


“The only thing that’s been decided, [the one thing] that we all agree on, is that Chamberlain and [Phillip] Hughes start out Spring Training as starters,” Steinbrenner said.


Chamberlain was 2-0 with a 0.38 ERA and one save in 19 relief appearances with the big ballclub. Chamberlain made 15 starts in the Minor Leagues between Class A Tampa, Double-A Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. He was 9-2 with a 2.56 ERA, allowing 24 earned runs and 61 hits while walking 27 and striking out 125 in 84 1/3 innings.



In my opinion, I have a few doubts in having Chamberlain as a starter. It seemed as if he lost noticable amounts of velocity on his pitches, after one inning of pitching…and even did not look good when pitching back to back days. Hopefully, Joba is starter material … but either way..it’s good to see a young arm on the staff.



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