Joba still not sure what he’ll be doing for Yanks next season
Joba Chamberlain(notes) tells the Yankees’ Web Site he’s ready for whatever role the world champs want him to fill—once they tell him what it is.
GM Brian Cashman said last week that he saw Chamberlain and fellow righty Phil Hughes(notes) as starters who are capable of relieving.
"So he didn’t really answer the question," Chamberlain tells the site,
Chamberlain was effective when he was moved back to the bullpen late this season. He struggled at times as a starter as he was kept on a strict innings limit and was occasionally given extra days off between starts.
The Yankees are expected to pursue John Lackey(notes) in the free-agent market this offseason. That could continue to cloud Chamberlain’s future.
Still, Chamberlain tells the site he looks at the shuttling between the ‘pen and the rotation as a positive.
"If it does anything, it helps me just to know that I’ve been put in a lot of situations and it’s going to help me in the long run," he says.
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