Joba Chamberlain: Starter or Reliever? Do the Yanks even know?

The MLB playoffs are here, which I for one am ecstatic about. This is the first time since I moved to New York City that the Yankees have made the playoffs and are moving on to the next round after the sweep of the Minnesota. I love October baseball, but it got me thinking about the state of the Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain. I have watched 75% of the Yanks games this year and follow the team very closely which my boss calls almost to a dysfunctional level of following. But I just hope that Joba is ready to pitch. He hasn’t been pitching well lately, not that I can blame it entirely on him either.
The Yankees created these “Joba Rules” regarding innings pitch, days off between relief appearance depending on the amount of pitches pitched.My question is why have these rules? He is a 24 year old professional baseball pitcher, let the man pitch‬. This year in august they started to notice that he was raising his innings pitched too much. So they thought to make sure he doesn't go over the amount of innings he can pitch we have start skipping his starts. So instead of pitching every 5 days he was pitching every 10. When they saw how much he was struggling with that they decided to not skip starts but to only then pitch him 3-4 innings of his scheduled start. They think by limiting the amount of innings pitched this young in his career will prolong his professional career. Only problem the Yankees are in the hunt for a championship and we are concerned with innings pitched. Currently they are about to play the Angels in game 1 of the American League Championship Series. This man is like any other pitcher, he feeds off getting into a rhythm. By skipping his starts and then limiting his innings when he does start he is unable to get into a rhythm while also then depleting our bullpen. He is a big boy, let him pitch because now instead of going into the post season in a rhythm, he is going in stumbling.

He is a young guy and your messing now with his psyche having him out there getting booed, blowing games. This man already has enough in his personal life with his druggie drunkard mother and his ill father. His father is his rock and when his father got sick last year he was a wreck. God forbid something were to happen to his father his psyche would already be a mess. But now the man doesn't even know where his role with his team is. I hope for his sake that he has dusted all the cobwebs out of his head because he is a spark for the yanks and coming out of the bullpen he sparks the team when he comes in. He gives the team an added punch and is a momentum changer.
But in the future they need to figure out if he is a reliever or a starter fast because messing around trying to prolong his career and instead will be destroying it.