The Dodgers agreed to a minor league deal with reliever Nick Robertson, reports Ari Alexander of Boston 7 News. The righty returns to the organization that drafted him in the seventh round in 2019.
Robertson briefly reached the majors with Los Angeles. He made nine appearances before being traded to the Red Sox alongside minor league pitcher Justin Hagenman in the deal that brought Kiké Hernández back to the Dodgers. Robertson didn’t spend much time in Boston, as he only pitched for them at the big league level on nine occasions. The Sox dealt him to St. Louis in the Tyler O’Neill deal over the 2023-24 offseason.
The James Madison product then bounced around the league via a series of waiver transactions. He spent time with the Angels, Blue Jays (a claim that was met with some fanfare because the Maple Leafs have a player of the same name), and Astros. Robertson made one MLB appearance with Toronto and did not get to the highest level with Los Angeles or Houston. The Astros released him in August, and he closed the season on a minor league contract with the Royals.
Robertson has logged 35 2/3 major league innings overall. He carries a 5.30 earned run average despite better than average strikeout and walk numbers. He has allowed 4.46 earned runs per nine over parts of four Triple-A seasons. Robertson has punched out 26.2% of hitters at the top minor league level, but that comes alongside a lofty 11.3% walk percentage. He has a three-pitch mix (four-seam, slider and changeup) and averaged 93.4 MPH on the fastball in Triple-A last year. That’s down a couple ticks from the velocity he showed during his first stint in the L.A. organization.
That might put them over the top.
Do the Dodgers ever get any sleep? Another deferred contract?
You should have deferred this comment.
Can you defer minor league deal salaries?
The Dodgers are something else. They’re now signing hockey players to play baseball. And they grabbed him straight off the Toronto Maples Leafs active roster to boot!
Speaking of boots, he’d better get some new work shoes!
Oh no how dare they
SHOHEI OHTANI: 10 YRS, $700M
MOOKIE BETTS: 12 YRS, $365M
YOSHINOBU YAMAMOTO: 12 YRS, $325M
KYLE TUCKER: 4 YRS, $240M
BLAKE SNELL: 5 YRS, $182M
FREDDIE FREEMAN: 6 YRS, $162M
WILL SMITH: 10 YRS, $140M
TYLER GLASNOW: 5 YRS, $136.6M
It’s disgusting.
Some of those deals look like massive bargains now given the current state of the market.
I think you mean awesome.
10/140 is one of your examples? What a joke, and that’s discounting your username. We are at a time when yankee fans are crying about another team spending. Pathetic.
this can’t possibly be a Yankees fan complaining about another team’s spending
That’s not even half the story
Ohtani 680 mill deferred
Betts 120 mill deferred
Snell 66 mill deferred
Freeman 57 mill deferred
Smith 50 mill deferred
Tucker 30 mill deferred
Edman 25 mill deferred
T Hernandez 23.5 mill deferred
Scott 21 mill deferred
Diaz 13.5 mill deferred
Out of the top 21 most deferrals on contracts the dodgers own 10 out 21 and 10 out of 26 guys on their mlb roster.
They’re over a billion dollars in deferrals. Next closest on most players deferred
Mets Lindor Manea Devin Williams at a whopping 90 mill
Next closes on most money deferred Blue Jays Cease and Santander 121 mill
Even without Ohtani the dodgers clear both the blue jays and Mets by a significant amount
Some years their deferrals top 100+ mill which is somewhere between 50% of or close to 100% of 17 teams in the mlb if you look at player payroll projections for 2026
And people on this website still say “AnY tEaM can Do ThIs. OwNeRs NeEd To StOp BeInG cHeAp.”
^^^^^^^^
Clueless and proud!
Next closest proceeds to list them out of order
Any team can do this. It’s obvious they are against it because they don’t intend to own the franchise long term. Owners against deferrals don’t want them tying down the franchise sale price. Owners are cheap, especially ones like Cincy and Minnesota that sit on the franchise, draining taxpayer money, and expect the team to fund their lives.
You left out the worst of them all; Andy Ibanez
Dodgers minor leaguers barely make 8 figures.
Held back by The Man
Such an insightful analysis.
Dodgers are the only organization that has private chefs that travel with every affiliate team. Fans will say that’s disgusting how much they spend on players but the players keep choosing to sign minor/major league deals with them. Food must not be disgusting.
It only makes sense. Nutrition and performance go hand in hand.
I agree mule, probably one of the smarter investments a team can make
I believe Anthopolis overhauled the minor league diets when he came to Toronto (although maybe it was Shapiro, I’m old now leave me alone) because they were eating cheap garbage. It’s such a minimal investment for the return.
“An army marches on its stomach”
–Napoleon
He only has to be called up for 1 game and he gets a ring! Good move by him.