David Robertson: We will all get through this together. (AP) I’ve spent the roughly 12 hours since David Robertson blew his first save following the storm of arguments in articles and tweets regarding his suitability to close, the real impact of the loss of Mariano Rivera, whether any pitcher can close ...

Outside of there being 162 games played per team between March and early October, the baseball season offers few guarantees. The Yankees will probably be good, the Orioles will probably be bad, and Roy Halladay will probably be a Cy Young candidate, but these are only probabilities, not certainties. ...

David Robertson: Being Houdini carries some unusual risks. (AP) Attention, please: David Robertson Dodge! Duck! Dip! Dive! Dodge! Houdini extraordinaire Avoid gut punches Hiroki Kuroda Ninja GM strikes Smaller stadium could hurt Still a smart pickup Thank you.  Read More →

The Super Bowl is America’s most-hyped sports event of the year, so it’s perhaps no surprise that there are plenty of oddities that go with it—such as half time act Madonna getting her very own press conference. Among the questions asked was one about the rumored painting of Rodriguez ...

A funny thing happend on Phil Hughes’ road to stardom. Phil Hughes: Here he comes again... again. (AP) In his second-ever start, Hughes flirted with a no-hitter, and then he got hurt. Injuries returned again in 2008, limiting him to just 34 innings that season. In 2009, Hughes moved to the bullpen to ...

Don’t look now, but with less than two weeks left in the season, David Robertson’s ERA+ is 379*, which is the sixth-best single season mark by a pitcher with 60 or more innings pitched in the history of the major leagues. Here’s the leader list: Rk ERA+ Pitcher Year Team ERA IP 1 610 Dennis ...

Jorge Posada had reason to celebrate on Tuesday night. (AP) The Yankees finally got off the schneid on Tuesday night, beating the Rays to snap their six-game losing streak. Alex Rodriguez hit two home runs for the first time in forever (give or take a few months), Jorge Posada collected two base hits ...

David Robertson has become quite the escape artist. (AP) Tuesday night’s 3-1 win over the Royals — which featured a Melky Cabrera home run in his first game back at Yankee Stadium, natch — contained good news and bad news with regards to the Yankee bullpen, which provided three scoreless innings ...

The briefest of entries, but this should be the main item taken away from Tuesday’s game: Given the way the contest ended, David Robertson’s clutch performance tonight is going to be missed by many, but let us hope that it was not missed by Joe Girardi. This pitcher can be a key part of the ...

Tuesday night's mishap notwithstanding, Rafael Soriano gives the Yankees one more high-grade reliever to call upon. (AP) This week at Baseball Prospectus, I’ve peeked into our PECOTA projection system’s expectations for each team’s bullpen in a manner similar to the way I evaluated ...

Yesterday’s rain out was the worst thing that possibly could have happened, given that it gave me more time to think about Tuesday’s miserable loss. It also gave me time to watch an old picture on TCM, one in which Walter Huston, playing Jimmy Stewart’s father, has an emotional death scene, which ...