Changing the Joba rules? How boss-like!
It didn’t take long for Hank Steinbrenner to demonstrate the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Twenty games into the season, and the Baby Boss sounds very much like Papa George. He wants Joba Chamberlain out of the bullpen and into the Yankees starting rotation.
Hank says, “You don’t throw a guy with a 100 mph fastball into the bullpen as a setup guy. You put him in the starting rotation.” Hank, as YOU, YOURSELF know and knew -at least 2/5 (Hughes and Kennedy) and sometimes three (Mussina, who doesn’t have the stuff to beat good teams anymore) were going to be a problem and that you’d have to score runs. YOU, Hank and GM Brian Cashman, made the decision not to trade Phil Hughes to the Twins for Johan Santana.
Cashman actually told Newsday: “Joba is staying where he is. I don’t know what set Hank off.”
Leave Joba where he is, and let Hughes and Kennedy grow up. Instead, ask yourself how Daniel Cabrera shut out your supposed vaunted offense through six on Friday. Plus, the organization has had all these “Joba Rules” for Chamberlain. Here’s one that you might want to think about: With Joba’s dad Harlan recovering from illness, don’t rock the kid’s boat anymore than you have to. (Like having him pitch, say, two innings in a game as opposed to one if need be) Even if you moved him to the rotation NOW, Joba would need time to build up arm strength -NEVER MIND who takes his place in the pen behind Mariano Rivera.
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