Last spring he was given a chance to compete for a rotation spot versus Phil Hughes. This spring, with the rotation a mess, he won’t be given a chance to compete against the likes of Ivan Nova and the venerable Sergio Mitre.
In his age 22 and 23 seasons, Joba Chamberlain logged 221.2 innings as a major league starting pitcher, with a K/9 of 8.40, K/BB of 2.04, and an ERA of 4.18.
Now bizarrely pigeonholed by the front office and coaching staff as a middle reliever, it’s time for Joba to be traded. With the market for relievers currently inflated, he likely possesses more value in a trade than what he represents to the Yankees as just another member of the bullpen. And maybe there are some teams who think putting up numbers like those cited above are actually reason for optimism.
It’s time. Free Joba.
Perhaps trading an imprisoned Joba would bring back some big breasteses.
69 Comments
Ummmm January 9, 2011 23:07
Yes, indeed it is time we free Joba from his imprisonment known as the bullpen. If we sign Rafael Soriano then I don’t see how we can’t give him a shot to start.
Random Sports Guy January 9, 2011 23:08
Spring training is just around the corner. Why not give him a shot to start? Could it be any worse than Sergio Mitre?
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 08:54
Agreed, especially since Cashman’s bullpen composition over the past few years is to throw cheap options at the wall and see what sticks (not that there is anything wrong with that, given the volatility of relievers from year to year). I don’t see how stretching Joba out a bit and giving him another shot would be detrimental to a bullpen that is largely, with the exception of Mo, interchangeable parts.
In The Bummy January 11, 2011 18:18
I agree, but they refuse to do it.
JoeThunder January 9, 2011 23:09
I say he rot out his life in our bullpen. Now ostracize me for all of the rest of my life, NoMassians!
AndrewYF January 9, 2011 23:21
Now is not the time to trade Joba Chamberlain. No one cares about peripherals, all they care about is that he put up a 4.40 ERA in the bullpen. No one will value him the way he should be valued in order for the Yankees to trade him.
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Praveen January 9, 2011 23:46
Joba > Nova/Mitre
Put him in the rotation.
Sacred Cow January 10, 2011 08:47
It truly boggles the mind that they’d prefer Sergio Mitre over Joba.
Cp January 9, 2011 23:54
It’s time to say thanks and good bye to the young buck. He will find his niche in another team’s rotation. He had a good run, but enough is enough. Let him spread his wings elsewhere. Thanks, man. I do not hate you, but you are not filling the pinstripes like the other players do.
Common Sense January 10, 2011 13:19
I for the life of me do not and will never understand this anti Joba talk. MOst young pitchers tend to pitch .500 ball and have mediocre first seasons with glimpses of brilliance. I still remember Joba beating Josh Beckett 1-0. I think he went 8 innings. Can Mitre do that?!
Basically Im hearing that young power pitchers are not allowed the time they need to develop into stars with the yanks. Instaed they need to be shipped out to smaller market teams so we can get what a middle reliever or platoon option!?
I dont get it. I just don’t get it
Coach January 10, 2011 16:35
The front office probably knows a lot more about his health than we do. Joba was doing fantastically as starter, then hit his previous IP wall and broke down.
At the I.P. Wall, Hughes’ ERA and WHIP numbers went up, Joba’s shoulder went down. Remember, the only reason the Yankees even drafted Joba as a sandwich pick (after already drafting IPK) was due to injury concerns.
Just because someone is fat, it doesn’t mean they are capable of handling a starter’s workload.
JoE January 9, 2011 23:56
The amount of anti-Joba sentiment out of the Yankee brass bothers me. When Cash is trying to play it cool, he doesn’t say stuff like “Joba is in the bullpen” unless he means it. It’s different the Bubba Crosby thing because that was a masked move disguised as a vote of confidence in a player. He’s not doing this for Joba. He needs to start, and if they won’t do that, he needs to swapped for someone who can.
Insensitive TYU guy January 10, 2011 06:42
“Bubba Crosby is our starting CF” was a simple statement of fact. Until Johnny Damon was signed, Bubba was the #1 guy on the depth chart. That quote has been grossly misunderstood and abused since the day he said it.
BadAssBillyCurtis January 10, 2011 06:09
Are farts supposed to have lumps?
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 08:40
Only if they are accompanied by grunts.
BadAssBillyCurtis January 10, 2011 10:52
Are grunts supposed to have lumps?
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 10:56
Only if they are accompanied by farts.
BadAssBillyCurtis January 10, 2011 12:55
Are farts supposed to have company?
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 13:59
Why, yes! Lumps, my good man!
Kenny Fucking Powers January 10, 2011 14:00
ballsniffer
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 16:45
Smells like victory. And genitals.
Ummmm January 10, 2011 17:23
Is Kenny Powers sniffing Swish’s balls now? Wow, and I thought that everyone else was gay.
Sensitive RAB guy January 10, 2011 08:33
Joba looks like he has some big breasteses
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 08:41
JoePaw can hook him up with a workout plan, no?
Sensitive RAB guy January 10, 2011 11:09
Maybe. But he can definitely hook him up with 500 words on “Things I should have said to my 7th grade geography teacher”
Middle school might as well have been elementary school. It was just as easy. I took all the A-level classes, didn’t study a lick, and still got mostly As. There was the occasional B in English, because I didn’t read the assigned books, and sometimes a B in science. Other than that, you could have written As all down the report card. This went especially for math and geography. I didn’t particularly enjoy either class, but both subjects came naturally to me. I don’t have my old report cards to prove it, but I’m 99 percent certain that I aced all four marking periods of both subjects in seventh grade.
Along the way I must have annoyed many teachers. My homework was either not done or clearly done hurriedly right before class, yet I still aced all the tests. This habit bothered no teacher in the same way it did my geography teacher, Mrs. Carnathan. She was always on my case about whatever minute detail she could find. It started with the sloppiness of my homework, but I didn’t care because I still got all the answers right. Then, halfway through the year, she introduced a notebook check. Instead of caring about performance, she cared about how we filed the dittos she handed out in class. As expected, my notebook was basically a pile of loose papers.
When she came around to check notebooks, she stopped deliberately at my desk. There was my flimsy, plastic three-ring binder, stuffed to the gills with loose papers. I remember her giving me this stern look, and then picking up the notebook. The papers fell everywhere, and she clearly wasn’t going to pick them up. But she wouldn’t let it go there. No, she wasn’t satisfied with giving me a quiz grade F, something she hadn’t come close to doing before, and making me pick up all my papers. To rub it in, she told me to stand up and repeat after her.
“I am a failure.”
I can’t remember if failure was the exact word. My best friend, Andy, sat behind me at the time. I asked him earlier tonight if he remembered the exact phrase, but he did not. But it was definitely failure, or screw-up, or something completely deflating. And, because I was chicken shit at the time, I said it. The class had a good chuckle, and that ended that. Of course, when report cards got sent home my geography grade was a big fat A. Same as it ever was.
Why I regret this development I have no idea. From the moment I sat down until this day I wish I had told her to go fuck herself. Yeah, I would have gone to the principal’s office, but I had a classroom full of witnesses who saw her make a student stand up and announce that he was a failure — a failure who brought home As in the class! I don’t think I would have gotten in a great deal of trouble. In fact, I think Mrs. Carnathan would have been reprimanded a bit more severely. It’s not like I would have said it unprompted.
As I’ve gotten into the habit of writing fiction daily, memories such as this have started flooding my brain. This one happens to stand out, because it was the most despicable thing a teacher has ever done to me.
(Also of note: I was a screw-up, failure, whathaveyou in high school. Just so it doesn’t seem as though I’m bragging or anything.)
swedski January 10, 2011 11:56
and your point other than your obivious loser life is?
Sensitive RAB guy January 10, 2011 13:02
point taken
[Censored] January 10, 2011 12:39
But you did fail sandbox and colors, Joe. And your helmet was voted the stupidest on the short bus.
Pete C. January 13, 2011 05:26
I thought Mr. sensitive was Mike, not Joe. I’m confused. Help me TSJC.
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 12:42
*golf clap*
Joe Pawlikowski January 10, 2011 15:05
Hurtful words. :( I’ll turn that into a 60,000 word post tonight. I make this vow to you, Ben Ka bak.
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 16:47
If it makes you feel any better, here, have this shammy to wipe off the sweat I’ve left behind on this rowing machine. It’s your turn. With those treadmills packed with fatties, I’m sure you’ll need to start looking elsewhere for your exercise.
The Other Guy January 10, 2011 08:33
He’s a peacock, let him fly!
The Other Guy January 10, 2011 08:35
Why did peacock, turn into peacheese tortellini with basil-pesto sauce?
On a side note, isn’t basil-pesto redundant, since pesto is made with basil?
the internet January 10, 2011 08:38
Probably one of my fav photoshops. One of the best skits in In Living Color history.
Fuck Face January 10, 2011 08:57
Joba is not a stahhta!
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 09:05
Jobah is not fungible!
Vietnamese girl from Rambo January 10, 2011 09:14
You not expendable.
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 09:19
Very goodly! Chop chop!
Sensitive RAB guy January 10, 2011 09:06
Does Rebexarama really need 4x more tweets than CBS NEWS?
http://twitter.com/rebexarama
Kim Last January 10, 2011 15:03
When you have no life? Yes. Works out that way. Some people don’t work and sit on a laptop all day. Strange but true.
Fuck Face January 10, 2011 09:24
I’m so glad I read the comments – now I can save up to 500$ at pottery barn.
Rex Ryan's Wife's Feet January 10, 2011 09:38
Is there any chance that the Yankees are just saying Joba is in the bullpen so that he will get less in arbitration? Joba, Hughes and Logan are all arbitration eligible now. Cashman has to know Joba is a better staring option that Mitre, right? Right?
Adam West January 10, 2011 09:52
You’d think, right? Maybe Cashman couldn’t resist all the coaches and players telling him Joba belongs in the pen. Or maybe he’s just dumb.
A jerk January 10, 2011 10:03
Trade Joba to the Mets for Mike Pelfrey.
Phieleblunt January 10, 2011 11:15
We would have to have him legally change his name to Joha Chamberito to have the Mets consider that offer
Lou Brown January 10, 2011 10:16
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.
Ralph January 10, 2011 10:42
maybe 90 wins and no playoffs.ok wild card.
Benjamin Kaback, future esq. January 10, 2011 14:59
I’m still here bitches
[Censored] January 10, 2011 15:37
In before delete.
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 16:50
“Kaback”
I see what you did there. You’re “(Ka)back” indeed!
Joe Pawlikowski January 10, 2011 15:02
Free him? They should have traded him last year.
Swishalicious January 10, 2011 16:48
Where is the requisite chart? I demand a graph, nay, two graphs!
Sensitive RAB guy January 10, 2011 20:50
Sometimes I like to whack off to Fangraphs’ minimalist style and too-cool font
Ummmm January 10, 2011 21:26
I do too?
Sacred Cow January 11, 2011 09:16
Sometimes I can’t tell the difference between RAB and Fangraphs. They’re like clones of each other. Seriously, have some originality.
Steve Balboni's Bastard January 12, 2011 16:25
Two boring ass sites with even more boring ass writers and even more boring posts. Yawn worthy.
Craig Sager January 10, 2011 23:37
Diamonds and dust, cadillacs and rust. Sportcoats and ties.
Leather Bound Books January 11, 2011 09:40
What the Yanks have done with Joba is a disgrace. No doubt is Hughes the better starting pitcher, and giving him the spot last year was the best decision the Yankees have made in about 4 years.
But Joba can still do something, and with our rotation in the state that it’s in… I think giving Joba one last shot is definitely worth it.
Forcing a decent starting pitcher to be a “good reliever” is beyond retarded.
Sacred Cow January 11, 2011 09:48
A disgrace, indeed. Well said.
But, I would add that it’s impossible to say Joba would only be “decent.” He was a better prospect than Hughes, but the Yankees never gave him a chance.
Nick Social January 11, 2011 19:21
The Yankees have given him plenty of chances.
He has been inconsistent.
To blame Joba’s ineffectiveness on anyone BUT Joba is absurd.
What a joke January 11, 2011 21:05
You’re absolutely insane.
Even Funnier Joke January 13, 2011 00:47
The fact that Mom is an addict, and Joba has proven to love the sauce, there’s absolutely 0% chance that he isnt being effective as he could be, right?
Joe Pawlikowski January 11, 2011 11:30
Fangraphs has graphs and pie charts showing Joba is better in the 4th inning than the 6th.
Yardisiak January 12, 2011 20:29
Joba had 15 starts in the minors, an injury his and then had the nerve to be average his first full year starting?!? Seriously, we have all seen the issues with Joba( loss of velocity, bad body language, bad control) but it is WAY too early to give up on him. He hasn’t been given the chance to learn how to pitch. 15 starts in the minors and one full year in the majors is not enough.
Sharktopus January 12, 2011 21:38
They should shut down the commenting section here. It’s pretty worthless. It’s literally 5 people pretending to 6 different people each and comment on each other. Sheesh. Worthless.
Are You Kidding Me? January 13, 2011 00:58
Get with the program. I already made this statement on the “Rothschild” Post on the 5th. Only I said it was “6 guys posting under 10 names”. It doesnt take much time to surmise, and no one seems to care. Throw all common sense out the window when visiting here and you’ll do just fine kiddo.
TSJC January 13, 2011 10:25
^^^THIS