Joba Chamberlain News

There's no way New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman could have predicted Joba Chamberlain would be lost for the season in a trampoline accident, or the same fate would befall Mariano Rivera while shagging fly balls in batting practice.

The Yankees are off today for the first time in 17 days, and they have to be in good spirits after taking two out of three games from the Kansas City Royals .

We're as certain of that, say, as we were when announcing the Los Angeles Kings would not win a Stanley Cup, this year or any other year.

No Mariano Rivera, David Robertson or Joba Chamberlain for the New York Yankees would normally doom the back-end of their bullpen.

In the ninth inning of Wednesday night's Yankees-Rays game, Tampa's Matt Joyce hit a three-run homer off New York reliever David Robertson.

With the recent season-ending injury to Hall of Fame closer, Mariano Rivera, Yankee fans have been wailing and gnashing their teeth in anticipation of a demise of the team's 2012 fortunes.

The Yankees have certainly had their fair share of pitching injuries during the first few months of the season.

Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain has knocked himself out of commission for quite a while after dislocating his ankle on a trampoline.

Even before he injured himself on a trampoline Joba Chamberlain was recovering from Tommy John surgery.

This wasn't the first time an animal diverted the attention of the thousands in attendance or the many watching from the comforts of their own home.

They're losing starting pitchers at the front end of their pitching staff, and they're losing them at the back end of the bullpen.

The Blue Jays won't accelerate their long-term plans in the wake of Mariano Rivera's potential season-ending knee injury and other setbacks suffered by the Jays' American League East rivals, says general manager Alex Anthopoulos.

His amazing career deserved a better conclusion. Either by clinching another title or letting one slip away would have been appropriate.

Feel sorry for Mariano Rivera. He is one of the game's great people as well as the undisputed greatest closer of all time.

Mariano Rivera will not be closing games for the New York Yankees for the rest of this season, or probably ever again.

The move came Thursday, one day after Chavez left a game against Baltimore in the middle of an at-bat in the fifth inning.

Shoeless Joe Jackson's glove was called "The Place Where Triples Go To Die". The New York Yankees are rapidly becoming the organization known as the place where young pitchers have their careers short-circuited. John Harper in the New York Daily News discussed that the Yankees' brain trust might be wise to reconsider their approach to developing ... (more)

Phil Hughes struggles again Tuesday. Considering Michael Pineda's injury, scouts are starting to question the Yankees developing of arms.

Reports last week that the US had agreed with Japan to transfer 9,000 of its 19,000 troops out of Okinawa stated matter of factly that the move will cost $8.6 billion - that's billion, or $955,000 per service member.

It wasn't your typical walk-off victory. In fact, it was really a run-off. Whatever you call it, the Yankees notched their seventh come-from-behind win by scoring a run in the bottom of the ninth on a passed ball by Alex Avila .