David Robertson
Robertson is one of the most underrated relievers in baseball this year. He’s pitching to a 1.93 ERA with 48 strikeouts in 37.1 innings with an expected ERA of 2.99, but the knock on him is that he’s simply not getting enough save chances in Chicago.
The Cubs cannot win games and now they have a closer revitalizing his career in David Robertson who is wasting away in the back end of their pen.
Robertson is 37-years-old and still getting more swings-and-misses than 90% of pitchers this year. His spin also remains off-the-charts as he’s able to rack up such a high strikeout and whiff rate sitting 93 mph with his leading pitch in the cutter.
Somebody needs to “Adopt-a-David-Robertson” and I’d love that team to be the Boston Red Sox who need a guy who’s going to be able to keep the ball out of play in the later innings as effectively as Robertson has this year.