{"id":13654,"date":"2025-07-21T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13654\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:45:08","slug":"phillies-sign-reliever-david-robertson-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13654\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies sign reliever David Robertson to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/philadelphia-phillies\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"philadelphia-phillies\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a>\u00a0have signed right-hander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/david-robertson\/66048306-1c8b-45ff-b5c1-ddf5157829c5\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"66048306-1c8b-45ff-b5c1-ddf5157829c5\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Robertson<\/a>\u00a0to a $15.7 million, one-year contract, prorated to $6 million through the end of the regular season, to bolster their bullpen in a bid to outlast the New York Mets and win a second straight NL East title.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski made the move Monday, optioning the 40-year-old reliever to Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson was a key pitcher for the New York Yankees when they won the 2009 World Series and was an all-star two years later with the franchise. He helped the Phillies reach the 2022 World Series, going 1-0 with a 1.17 ERA in eight post-season games, and also played for them in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson was 3-4 with a 3.00 ERA in 68 games \u2014 two shy of his career high \u2014 and had two saves last season in Texas. He\u00a0declined a $7 million mutual option, triggering a $1.5 million buyout and making him a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>He is 66-46 with a 2.91 ERA with 177 saves and 1,154 strikeouts, ranking 11th all time among relievers. The Yankees drafted the former Alabama player 17th overall in 2016 and he also pitched for the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia, Tampa Bay, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, Miami and the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies and Mets are in a closely contested race for first in the NL East with 60-plus games remaining in the\u00a0regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The\u00a0Philadelphia Phillies\u00a0have signed right-hander\u00a0David Robertson\u00a0to a $15.7 million, one-year contract, prorated to $6 million through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-13654","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\/13654","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=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}