{"id":11781,"date":"2025-07-21T01:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11781\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:23:12","slug":"sources-phillies-to-add-free-agent-david-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/11781\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources – Phillies to add free agent David Robertson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 20, 2025, 06:08 PM ET<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> are in agreement with free agent reliever David Robertson<\/a>, sources told ESPN, confirming multiple reports.<\/p>\n

Robertson will receive more than $5 million for the rest of the season on his deal, which is for a prorated $16 million, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal is pending a physical.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

Robertson, 40, has been a free agent since declining $7 million mutual option with the Texas Rangers<\/a> last November. He was 3-4 with a 3.00 ERA and two saves in 72 innings over 68 appearances last season, striking out 99 and walking 27.<\/p>\n

A 16-year big league veteran, he is 66-46 with a 2.91 ERA and 177 saves for the New York Yankees<\/a> (2008-14 and 2017-18), Chicago White Sox<\/a> (2015-17), Philadelphia (2019 and 2022), Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> (2021), Chicago Cubs<\/a> (2022), New York Mets<\/a> (2023), Miami Marlins<\/a> (2023) and Texas.<\/p>\n

The Phillies, in the midst of a division race with the Mets in the NL East, are in the bottom 10 in bullpen ERA at 4.30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 20, 2025, 06:08 PM ET The Philadelphia Phillies are in agreement with free agent reliever David Robertson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}