From
Tyler Kepner:
There is still no word from the Yankees on the exact nature of Joba Chamberlain’s shoulder injury or the findings of Dr. James Andrews. But I can tell you for certain that Chamberlain will be placed on the disabled list today. Reliever Chris Britton will be recalled from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre for his sixth tour of duty, with Ian Kennedy to start for Chamberlain this weekend.
At this point I'm starting to believe that this will be a season-ender regardless of the severity of the injury. Like I said yesterday, the Yankees are not going to risk Joba's arm on this one season. Hopefully somebody can step in and pick up the lack for 10 starts. Either way things are looking worse and worse for the 2008 Yankees.
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Yeah, I doubt they're going to risk it. My (complete) guess on Joba is a partial/minor muscle tear. If it was May, he'd probably be shut down for 2-3 weeks, start throwing again, and be back in 5-7 weeks. At this point, they'll likely shut him down period.
And on a side note, Cleveland was leading the Rays 7-4 going into the bottom of the ninth, as Edward Mujica comes into the game and does not retire a batter, giving up: 2B, 2B, HR. Kobayashi then comes in and promply gives up 1B, BB, HR, 10-7 final.
With teams blowing games like this against our competition, it's getting even tougher. Unbelievable.
I really think it's time to start focusing on the Wild Card. The Rays aren't going to fade. They're legit.
Yeah, I've kept expeciting them to come down to earth a bit, mostly because I think they have a very mediocre offense. But they keep doing enough to win.
I do think that they're going to be hurting when they have to make up all these road games (they're like 11 games more at home than on the road, and they're an awful road team) so I'm not throwing in the division towel yet. If the Yanks don't get the division lead down to about 3 games by September, then I'll start to really worry.
Really, there's a lot of time left, even though there isn't much time left. All it takes is one hot stretch (like that 8 game winning streak) where the Yankees pick up 3 or 4 games in one week, and suddenly momentum can start to swing in a divisional race.
These last two games against Texas have been miserable, but both games could easily have gone the other way. A huge blown call by the umpiring crew in game 1 and several line outs in game 2 really could have swung the games the other way. Yesterday in the 2nd inning with 1st and 2nd, one out of the bat of Sexon who lined into a DP on an absolute rocket down the 3B line... if that ball goes into the corner for a run scoring double, I had the feeling that the piece of junk Harrison wouldn't have made it to the 4th inning.
So is Joba goin on the DL retroactive to Monday? Also, if we come out 10 gms behind after the Angels series with a bunch of 3-4 starters and Pettite's struggles this season may offically be over.
as per YES network, Joba has tendinitis in his rotator cuff.
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