11/30: Joba Chamberlain - #5
Posted by: James
The last Yankee on the MiLB.com Top 50 Prospect list is Joba Chamberlain, who slots in at number 5, just ahead of Clay Buchholz and right behind Clayton Kershaw.
3 kids on a list of 50 isn't too shabby. Throw in Hughes, Cano, Melky and the cavalcade of pitchers in the minors and you have a nice looking system. Again, I am surprised that Tabata did not make this list considering who else was on it...but hey, maybe I'm guilty of over-hyping.
Chamberlain dominated three levels of the Minors, went to the Futures Game and made it to the big leagues as a high-impact short reliever
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He's got the kind of stuff that should put him near the top of the rotation in time, with the ability to throw four pitches -- fastball, curve, slider and changeup -- for strikes. You never can tell what might happen in the future with trades and signings, but the concept of a Philip Hughes-Joba Chamberlain-Ian Kennedy rotation should make Yankee fans plan for baseball deep into October for the next decade or so.
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He's got the kind of stuff that should put him near the top of the rotation in time, with the ability to throw four pitches -- fastball, curve, slider and changeup -- for strikes. You never can tell what might happen in the future with trades and signings, but the concept of a Philip Hughes-Joba Chamberlain-Ian Kennedy rotation should make Yankee fans plan for baseball deep into October for the next decade or so.
3 kids on a list of 50 isn't too shabby. Throw in Hughes, Cano, Melky and the cavalcade of pitchers in the minors and you have a nice looking system. Again, I am surprised that Tabata did not make this list considering who else was on it...but hey, maybe I'm guilty of over-hyping.
