I must know what I am doing, my name is Steinbrenner
The Prince of the Yankees has issued an edict. Joba must start. Of course we are only twenty games into the season, and Joba was away for three of those games, but he must start. Start he must. As it is written, so shall it be done. Quote the Prince:
"I want him as a starter and so does everyone else, including him, and that is what we are working toward and we need him there now," Steinbrenner said Sunday by telephone. "There is no question about it, you don't have a guy with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball and keep him as a setup guy. You just don't do that. You have to be an idiot to do that."
Interesting the man used the word idiot. Because that's exactly what I was thinking about him.
Joba has pitched a total of 138 innings in his career at the tender age of 23. He's not exactly a Roy Oswalt yet. I would rather see him stay in the pen so he doesn't become a Fydrich.
If we even take this thinking a step or two further, Mo Rivera is not going to last forever. Rivera did very well setting up Wetteland for a couple of years. Back off Hank and let's not fuck up the Yankees in your first year. Why not try to find the next Jay Buhner and trade him for today's Ken Phelps. Oh the sins of the father.