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Robertson isn't a closer, and he threw about 40 pitches last night; he was overworked before he even came in. You can't have someone who is known for putting men on base repeatedly to close your games. Soriano isn't any better, but at least he has closed before.

Maybe we need to switch Soriano and D-Rob around.. Soriano has the experience to be a closer, D-Rob is still a little green yet.. If the call at second was made correct we still might be playing, but another if..

Another night the offense went silent.. Tex saves a lot of runs with his glove, but when your paid $20 plus million you need to hit the ball some for average... But again another total offensive flop... This team needs to score more then one run against any pitcher, it's paid to do that...

May 9, 2012 -- 10:43PM, laurenfrances wrote:

May 9, 2012 -- 10:40PM, yankeeoldfan wrote:

Maybe we need to switch Soriano and D-Rob around.. Soriano has the experience to be a closer, D-Rob is still a little green yet.. If the call at second was made correct we still might be playing, but another if..

Another night the offense went silent.. Tex saves a lot of runs with his glove, but when your paid $20 plus million you need to hit the ball some for average... But again another total offensive flop... This team needs to score more then one run against any pitcher, it's paid to do that...

In the same token, closers are there to indeed deliver a win with a 1-2 run lead.  I know this is only a small sample, I still wonder if Robertson has the mental fortitude to close games.  Yesterday he was also tinkering on blow it....

No doubt D-Rob has the stuff, it's just whether he has the mind set yet ??  I know hind sight is always easier, but I'm not sure I wouldn't have let Soriano be the prime closer this year and let D-Rob close a few games now and then.. Soriano has the experience, he's done it in the AL East, so he's a proven commodity.. Robertson needs to work his way in to this closer role, not get thrown into the fire so to speak... These last two nights have been a pressure cooker for sure, against one of your rivals and with no wiggle room.. Tough on a kid no matter who he is.. Also that blown call at second didn't help him either, but you can't count on those to go one way or the other, you just can't give up that many first pitch hits to start the ninth inning...