Friday, August 8, 2008
AP: Yanks’ Chamberlain expects to return this month
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Joba Chamberlain plans to start a throwing program next week and expects to rejoin the New York Yankees’ rotation this month. Chamberlain was placed on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday due to rotator cuff tendinitis in his pitching shoulder.
The right-hander saw Dr. James Andrews on Wednesday, one day after an MRI on the rookie’s ailing shoulder.
“I’ll be throwing in a week. I’ll probably throw the beginning of next week,” Chamberlain said Friday when he arrived at the Yankees’ spring training complex. “Everything feels fine now.”
When asked if he would be ready to start again for the Yankees by Sept. 1, Chamberlain said “I’ll throw way before that in a game.”
Exhale.
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