It looks as if the Yankees and Shawn Chacon are headed for an arbitration hearing next Monday in St. Petersburg.

Chacon, who went 7-3 for the Yankees last season, filed for $4.15 million and the Bombers filed at $3.1 million.

“Right now it looks like we are going to a hearing,” GM Brian Cashman said yesterday.

Joe Torre said Chacon is a candidate for the starting rotation, but the Yankee skipper isn’t wild about Chien-Ming Wang possibly pitching for Taiwan in the World Baseball Classic.

The 25-year-old Wang went 8-5 for the Yankees last season when he was sidelined for nearly two months by a shoulder problem.

“That is a concern of mine because of what he had to go through last year,” Torre said.

Wang is undecided about the WBC, Cashman said.