ESPN‘s David Schoenfield penned a column Saturday outlining how the right tweaks at the deadline could turn a Philadelphia Phillies team that’s holding onto the final Wild Card spot currently into a World Series-caliber team, much like what happened to the Atlanta Braves a year ago.
One of the suggestions that Schoenfield had was that the Phillies add a veteran reliever capable of pitching in the eighth or ninth inning, going on to say that David Robertson “is the obvious candidate.”
“Obvious” may not be the word used by those who remember Robertson’s first stint in Philadelphia, although perhaps the outsider perspective here is the correct one.