Yankees setup: Farnsworth to replace Joba in 8th

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NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees found this 5/23/2008 on www.newsday.com [flag]
If the sudden Joba Chamberlain transition from setup man to starter was the Yankees' equivalent of an earthquake, the initial aftershocks will ripple over Kyle Farnsworth. [link]

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Taking them one at a time, Yanks win two in a row
Published 5/23/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... quotes Girardi regarding the set-up role: "I'm not going to set in stone who my eighth-inning guy is. We'll use (Farnsworth) a lot. But we have a lot of capable people." Farnsworth has convinced us he can pitch again, and last night's scoreless eighth in a 1-1 game made us feel a lot more comfortable with him in that setup role. Steve Zipay thinks we'll see a lot more of Farnsworth in that role than the other "capable people." ...

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