Hankering For A Dose Of Sanity

I don't know about you, but the whole Hank Steinbrenner vs. Brian Cashman controversy had me scratching my head. After all the brouhaha it finally looks like sanity has been restored.

Via SI.com:

Hank Steinbrenner thinks Joba Chamberlain can become an elite starting pitcher but realizes his place is in the bullpen for now.

"We're not going to rush him," the New York Yankees co-chairman said Monday at the team's spring training complex. "I think most people agree with me, including the baseball people and most of the fans, that sooner or later it would be nice if he was a starter."

That's a decidedly different tone from his initial statement, but it's also the only rational position at this time. Think about it...It's just not practical to try to get Joba in the starting rotation any time soon. It's not as if he can change his role overnight, in other words. By all accounts he would need at least a month, if not longer, to work his way up to the role of starting pitcher.

Who will start in the interim? Won't it still be Hughes, Kennedy et al? One or both will still have to step up if we want to keep pace with the Red Sox. And then we'd also have the added worry about who'll pitch the 7th and 8th of every game...

With Joba in the bullpen, at least that's one problem-one very big problem-we won't have!