Former Yankees pitcher drops name of one teammate he couldn’t stand: ‘F--- no!’

Former Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain didn’t hesitate when asked if he’s ever had a teammate he didn’t get along with.

“Kevin Youkilis,” Chamberlain told podcaster Eddie Mata on his show back in November. “F--- no!”

“I just didn’t like him ... when he was with the Red Sox or whatever, but he never came and got me, and then he was my teammate,” Chamberlain said on the Eddie Mata show, via YouTube. “And I was like, Dude, this is baseball, like, between the lines, it is what it is, but outside, like, you’re my teammate ... and then I called him right when he signed, and ignored me, ignored me, ignored me. And then he gets a spring training and wants to be all buddy-buddy, and then he breaks his back and doesn’t do anything for us. So that guy can go fly a kite.”

When the pair briefly became teammates on the 2013 Yankees, it came with some built-in tension. The two had spent years on opposite sides of the Yankees–Red Sox rivalry, highlighted by Chamberlain buzzing Youkilis with a pair of high fastballs in 2007 — an incident that sparked on-field anger in Boston and set the tone for their relationship.

Youkilis’ season in New York quickly derailed due to a back injury that limited him to just 28 games before surgery, leaving little impact on the field and, as Chamberlain put it, even less goodwill between them.

Chamberlain, meanwhile, carved out a memorable run in pinstripes long before that uneasy partnership. Bursting onto the scene as a dominant bullpen force in 2007, he helped stabilize the Yankees’ late-inning relief corps with a blistering fastball and wipeout slider — so electric that “Joba Rules” were created to manage his workload.

Over seven seasons in New York, he compiled a 3.85 ERA, struck out more than a batter per inning, and contributed to the Yankees’ 2009 World Series championship, logging key innings both as a starter and reliever.

Though injuries and role changes complicated his later years, Chamberlain remained one of the most recognizable young arms of his era, known for his power stuff, intensity, and early postseason heroics.

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