Interesting take. Not that I agree with it, but an interesting take

Chamberlain is hurting the entire team. Persons in authority at the Yankee organization are allowing this to happen. I couldn’t care less how old he is or if the poor slob needs a few years to drain the life out of everyone around him. Since when is this organization a nursery school being run by its biggest infant? He has serious emotional problems. The biggest evidence of which is his recent arrest for drunk driving and night in jail. He has a young toddler who could easily have been left without a father, yet Chamberlain shows not a shred of humility or introspection from this experience. I find it easy to believe as previous poster mentioned that he has continued this behavior. It’s how he’s conducted himself as a Yankee, publicly disdaining veterans on the team as well as the manager, Joe Girardi. I’ve watched the man, this father, and he is unteachable and unreachable. If he follows in his mother’s unfortunate footsteps, he has nowhere to go but down. Making it worse is the Yankee organization pampering and babying him. This is the last thing you do with a person like this. Many people with his obvious mental and emotional problems never become successful. He is cancer for this team. The front office apparently forgot it was 13 consecutive years in the post season that sold all those seats not some very troubled jerk who hogs the camera every chance he gets.

@ ken:
Yes I know the player development people chart their course according to the comments in the blogosphere…

Now we know why it is so hard for the Yankees to develop starting pitchers. Their future careers are analyzed based on the last game’s performance. Or even last pitch?

What Joba needs is to pitch. There will be fits and starts. We won’t know his ability for a year or two.

@ antone:
Earlier he was getting lit up out of the gate, but look at last night: started out fine (strong?) and only later fell apart (tired?)…

Makes me wonder.

Or maybe it was just, as others have suggested — a tantrum, where he lost it when things didn’t go his way?

cr1 wrote:

Joba came to camp in poor condition this Spring, after a lazy, drunk off-season (rumors out of Nebraska said he kept it up even after the DUI). He was in no shape to pitch well every five days and I wonder if there’s any reason to suppose he will for the rest of this year. He doesn’t have the strength to throw fireballs or to last for long on the mound, and his poor conditioning affects his command and control as well.
He needs to be babysat during the next offseason, with a promise that if he arrives out of condition in the Spring his rotation spot will go to someone who arrives in shape.
I want to see how he performs when he gets his body right before deciding that it was all just a flash in the pan.

I think it’s more mechanics than conditioning…I mean look at David Wells and Curt Schilling…they were never in shape and pitched great…obviously it would be nice if he was in better shape, but it’s not like Joba was ever in that great of shape in the first place…considering that he gets lit up EARLY in games I’m thinking it’s more mechanics than conditioning…

Joba came to camp in poor condition this Spring, after a lazy, drunk off-season (rumors out of Nebraska said he kept it up even after the DUI). He was in no shape to pitch well every five days and I wonder if there’s any reason to suppose he will for the rest of this year. He doesn’t have the strength to throw fireballs or to last for long on the mound, and his poor conditioning affects his command and control as well.

He needs to be babysat during the next offseason, with a promise that if he arrives out of condition in the Spring his rotation spot will go to someone who arrives in shape.

I want to see how he performs when he gets his body right before deciding that it was all just a flash in the pan.