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New York Yankees: To Understand the Rotation Woes, Start at the Roots

you're looking for a scapegoat as you stare at the Yankees' funny-if-it-weren't-so-sad starting rotation, you might as well go with Joba Chamberlain. The man's already a human punching bag at this point, so I doubt he'll mind.

Had Chamberlain developed as the team expected, the departure of Andy Pettitte wouldn't feel like such a cataclysmic event.

In an ideal world, the Yankees would have entered 2011 with Chamberlain and Hughes already entrenched as established talents to pair with CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett.

The only issue—other than getting Burnett back on the grid, of course—would be finding a fifth starter, a problem they'd share with approximately 85 percent of the teams in baseball.

Hughes has held up his end ...

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