Joba Chamberlain will be in the rotation moving forward, meaning he will pitch every five games. They decided he needed to pitch more regularly. The innings limit hasn’t changed. Some starts will be less than five innings.This does make more sense. It'll keep his innings limit the same, but not have him go on weird rest periods. You have to expect they'll have the shorter outings now so they can build him up past 100 pitches so he's ready to go as their #4 starter in October.
This comes on the heels of Rick Peterson saying the Yankees are doing right by Joba. Baseball Musings pointed out that maybe it wasn't the short rest, but just pitching at Yankee Stadium (where Joba is not good) that has caused his struggles. Steven Goldman is happy (as is Kevin Kernan of the NY Post) as he thinks the Yankees were screwing too much with his schedule.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Joba down the stretch. If he can get back to where he was right after the All-Star break, the Yankees have a very dangerous starting 4 come October.
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