Tag Archives: David Robertson

D-Rob will not come off DL after 15 days

David Robertson has been out a week already with a strained oblique, but the injury he initially tried to downplay will keep him on the DL past 15 days, according to Dan Barbarisi of the Wall Street Journal. This is not a serious injury, but they are hard to judge. Being as he's David Robertson and ...

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Yankees put David Robertson on 15-day DL

David Robertson did not pitch last night because of a sore ribcage. After the game he downplayed the injury, but it is worse than he let on as the Yankees have placed him on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left oblique, according to Marc Carig of the Newark Star-Ledger. Cody Eppley was called up ...

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Robertson not worried about ribcage injury

On Monday night when the Yankees turned to a reliever to close out the game in the 9th inning they turned to Rafael Soriano and not David Robertson. No, the Yankees haven't changed their minds and decided to go with Soriano as the closer. Instead it was a ribcage injury that D-Rob sustained on Friday ...

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D-Rob vs Soriano: Who should be the closer?

To be honest, David Robertson might be my favorite Yankee right now.  Not just favorite Yankee pitcher, favorite Yankee overall.  That is, favorite Yankee not named Derek Jeter or Mariano Rivera.  I’ve loved Robinson Cano since he was rocking Roger Clemens’ old No. 22 jersey and any one of my friends here at St. John’s ...

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Soriano saves the day for the Yankees

Just a night after the first blown save of David Robertson's career, the Yankees used Rafael Soriano as their closer against the Rays. It wasn't because the Yankees lost faith in D-Rob, instead it was simply because he had thrown two nights in a row and manager Joe Girardi didn't want to overuse him. Soriano had ...

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The Yankee beat: D-Rob, plate discipline, and Yankee killers

CC Sabathia went eight innings and did not allow an earned run as the offense scored five runs off Tampa's ace David Price behind homers by Robinson Cano and Curtis Granderson for a 5-3 win. Here is the recap and the graph. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere was talking about today. Pinstriped Bible says people are ...

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Considering the Yankees Major League trade chips

The Yankees have plenty of trade chips in the minor leagues, but at the Major League level there really isn't much other teams' would be interested in. Usually it's because contracts are too big for other teams to take on, but even the players with reasonable contracts are hard to trade and get fair value ...

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David Robertson blows a save in just second chance

It didn't take long for David Robertson to remind Yankees fans that Mariano Rivera is not around anymore as he blew a save and lost the game against the Rays Wednesday night in just his second save opportunity since taking over for the future Hall of Famer. D-Rob took over with a slim 1-0 lead and ...

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D-Rob saves 1st game post-Rivera

David Robertson saved his first game in the post-Mariano Rivera world and it was in classic D-Rob fashion. It wasn't exactly pretty, but Robertson showed off why he is called Houdini, loading up the bases before striking out the final two batters to end the game. It's almost like he needs the situation to be as ...

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The Yankee beat: WAR and the bullpen

The Yankees might have gotten Ivan Nova back on track tonight as he got them off to a good start this week with a win over the Rays. David Robertson got his first post-Mariano Rivera save too. Here is the recap and graph. Here is what the Yankees blogosphere was talking about today. It's About the Money ...

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