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.
They deferred him so much he made it through half the league before he came back. And in doing so, they reclaim a piece of the Kike deal.
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.
Like who? None of those deals are anything other than top of market value or fair. Freeman is the closest one and he’s old.
Smith $14 mil a year is an amazing deal.
Funny, but the Smith contract is the only one on this list that can be called questionable, in terms of the rules. Signed as a catcher through his age 38 season? Realistically, the last couple of those seasons are gimmies to lower the AAV. Anyone who wants to complain about the Dodgers bending the rules should be citing this contract, not the others.
The last few years of that contract are going to be painful for them.
I think you mean awesome.
this can’t possibly be a Yankees fan complaining about another team’s spending
You left out the worst of them all; Andy Ibanez
Will Smith only 14m a year…I agree, this is disgusting. Deserves much more.
From the outside looking in it really is disgusting, I don’t blame owners or players for trying to make as much money as possible, I would do the same thing if I was in either the players or owners shoes . But that still doesn’t make it right I guess I’m just venting.
CMNY
“doesn’t make it right”
Does something make it wrong?
WW
What’s disgusting about it?
Maybe look at the incomes of the owners of the the teams that aren’t spending if you want to see disgusting
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
I’ll start working on my knuckleball. Three squares from private chefs seems worth it.
Sushi?
He only has to be called up for 1 game and he gets a ring! Good move by him.
Can you imagine the disgrace of signing a minor league contract with the Dodgers?
They can’t keep getting away with this!!!!!!
Wow, I didn’t know he was a two sport athlete.
Increase revenue sharing.
Increase upper level taxes /inlude more draft loss/international restrictions.
StS
Increase revenue sharing
Eliminate the draft. Eliminate team control and arbitration. Eliminate restrictions on singing international players.
Lol
*Now* they can pre-print the “2026 World Series Champions” banners.