Do you remember when Joba Chamberlain first came up and starting pitching well? Remember when he was about to have his first start and ESPN would break into all sorts of programs that he was warming up or took a piss in the dugout bathroom?
Yeah, that was a long time ago. Now, not many people seem to care what he’s up to. But, in case you do, you’ll be delighted to know that he’s going to miss the 2012 season with an open ankle dislocation. He was playing with his five-year old (couldn’t leave him with grandma) on one of those bouncy things, and he busted his ankle.
“Joba is in St. Joseph’s Hospital right now,” GM Brian Cashman said Friday morning. “From what we understand he was playing with his son at one of those kid places where you jump around on trampolines. While he was enjoying time with his son under those circumstances, he suffered a very significant injury, an open dislocation to his right ankle. He underwent a surgical procedure last night. He will be at St. Joseph’s for a number of days. I don’t have a time frame for his return.”
As it is, Joba is returning from Tommy John surgery. So, as if this ankle injury wasn’t bad enough, he’s got the Tommy John thing going for him too.
Cashman said “I would like to think it is not,” when asked if this injury was career threatening.
It would seem though, that his Yankees career is over. He won’t pitch this year and is arbitration eligible for the final time this year.