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...Chad Gaudin. The Yankees broke from their season long stand of having Joba Chamberlain pitch strictly as a starter, and, in the last game of the season, threw him for one inning out of the bullpen. Joba threw strikes, his velocity was in the mid-to-high 90s, and he punctuated a seven-pitch inning with a strikeout of Fernando Perez.á Perez swung and missed on a biting slider, and then whiffed on a 95 MPH high fastball. It was like the Joba of late 2007. He used a hard fastball and nasty slider the entire inning.á No need to change speeds with a developing curveball, or work-in-progress changeup.á I still think a starting pitcher can get through a lineup three times with just two pitches, and I wonder why Joba had not just gone with his fastball and slider combination ...

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