“I was, necessarily, the guinea pig — which I’m O.K. with. They were trying to protect me, and I blew out anyway. Innings, doing all these restrictions, that’s going to be a topic around baseball for as long as baseball goes.”

Joba Chamberlain, reflecting on the time - not long ago - when the Yankees always made the playoffs, always signed free agents, always spent the most... and even had the "Big Three."*

(* Not to be confused with the Killer B's.)