What to do with Chamberlain

 
During the offseason several Yankee fans are waiting anxiously to see what new manager Hank Steinbrenner is going to do with flame-throwing youngster Joba Chamberlain.  Do you start the twenty-two year old potential ace or do you groom him into becoming the closer of the future?  At the conclusion of the 2007 Steinbrenner said that he plans on having Chamberlain in the rotation, however as the offseason went on, the Yankee front office says that they plan limiting his innings pitched, by starting him in the bullpen and then easing him into the starting role, but is that the answer? Chamberlain already has had some minor arm troubles, so do the Yankees really want to take the chance with this electric arm?  Relievers are at such a lack in Major League Baseball, so what would you prefer having a rotation of Wang, Pettite, Hughes, Chamberlain, and Kennedy and then a bullpen of Mussina, Farnsworth, and Hawkins senting up Mo, or have a rotation of Wang, Pettite, Hughes, Mussina, and ... [link]

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