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Joba’s Last Stand? Chamberlain Enters Make-or-Break Season with New York Yankees

narrative of Joba Chamberlain has shifted so often the past four years it's easy to forget where it left off from one season to the next.

He's gone from phenom reliever (2007) to promising starter (2008) to struggling starter (2009) to mediocre reliever (2010).

Rafael Soriano's arrival in town tells us the Yankees worry the downward trending isn't temporary. Chamberlain's evolution from vaunted farm product to JAG (Just Another Guy) status is undoubtedly one of the organization's bigger disappointments in recent memory.

There are several conspiracy theories as to how this came to be. A popular explanation is that he was fouled up by the choppy and ill-conceived "Joba Rules." There's a camp that says he never fully recovered from a shoulder injury ...

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