NEW YORK--Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain has a torn ligament in his right elbow, a surprising violation, which is expected to require Tommy John surgery and at the end of his season.

A test Thursday morning revealed the tear. It came a day after New York Chamberlain on the list turned off 15 days with a stiff elbow, the latest blow to the back of the Yankees bullpen set.

41. 2006, Amis reliever Joba Chamberlain is pick overall in the last year of a four year contract. (Getty Images) But Chamberlain and the Yankees said she had no idea that the injury was as strong as he went for the additional control. Chamberlain said he was "Kind of in shock" shed a few tears on the diagnosis and said he did not know how or when he is injured.

"I know, I can surgery and get it fixed," he said.

She said the Yankees would send reports on Chamberlain to well known orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. Chamberlain, Andrews and the Yankees schedule the condition discuss before deciding on any approach.

While Chamberlain on the Yankees bench Thursday night game against the Boston his father spoke, dug-out sat in his wheelchair outside of New York.

Harlan Chamberlain said it was "way from the outset", his son Tommy John surgery, requires that, where a band in an arch is reconstructed. The recovery time typically 12 to 18 months is listed, when Harlan Chamberlain, that he thought said there could be 8 to 9 months for a reliever.

His father said "That he has done for the season". "Now that he is facing what every pitcher wants to face not, he will face it with a positive attitude." "Let's it done."

Yankees manager Joe Girardi, said: "My guess is he's going to have to have the surgery."

Play the 25-year old Chamberlain is 2-0 with a 2.83 ERA in 27. The hard - throwing Righty is staff for several years a key member of the Yankees and pitched in a variety of roles.

The Yankees were already with inflammation in his right elbow from Setup man Rafael Soriano, is missing. He led the AL in saves last year with Tampa Bay, and is no timetable for his return. Lefty specialist Pedro Feliciano pitched this year not because of a tear in his shoulder.

Girardi, said David Robertson's role as a Setup man for closer Mariano Rivera would inherit. The Yankees went in the day try a Red Sox sweep to avoid - Boston won the first two games of the series, put New York in the second place in the East of al.

Chamberlain pitched last Sunday against the angels, his eighth straight goalless occurs. Seine velocity was in the mid-90's mph and he was able to throw effective breaking balls. He said he long toss on Tuesday without pain played.

Chamberlain had regular treatment in the field always his forearm and elbow for almost two weeks met. He said his elbow felt fine when he pitched, but after play set. An MRI on Wednesday showed a strained flexor muscles, and he was retroactively on the DL to 6 June.

"He was not on my radar screen for any concern," general manager Brian Cashman said.

Girardi said some of the off-the-range indicators, that a pitcher has angle problems and possibly Tommy John surgery-trouble knobs door and twist bottle caps, for example-were not present.

"I think he's a little confused by everything," Girardi said.

Chamberlain made his debut major league with the Yankees in 2007 and the team has tried his innings with "Joba rules," where you take care to limit the Group Policy filtering only rarely not to him. He was a starter in 2009 and moved back to the bullpen full-time the next season.

Girardi said, it was on no second-guessing how Chamberlain had dealt with the Yankees.

"There is not an exact science," he said.

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