Brian Cashman: Joba Chamberlain Is 'Not a Lock' for 25-Man Roster

Filed under: Yankees, Spring Training

Here's how you know that it's officially baseball season again: The New York tabloids are blowing things about the Yankees wildly out of proportion.

Yankees camp opened for pitchers and catchers on Monday, leading to a question for general manager Brian Cashman about Joba Chamberlain's role on this year's team. Cashman's answer was the kind of fairly innocuous pablum you hear all the time in spring training about no one's spot on the team being 100 percent secure.

"Anybody who has (minor league) options is not a lock for anything," Cashman said. "Any player with options has to re-earn everything. You earn more or you earn less --New York or Scranton. I fully expect Joba to be in our bullpen. If not, he would have worked his way out of it."

 

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Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2011/02/14/brian-cashman-joba-chamberlain-is-not-a-lock-for-25-man-roste/

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