Marlins Release Nate RobertsonBy Ben Nicholson-Smith [July 27 at 4:04pm CST]The Marlins released Nate Robertson, according to Joe Capozzi of the Palm Beach Post (Twitter link). Robertson struggled as a starter this season and the Marlins designated him for assignment last week.

I still don't understand why he wasn't at least given a shot out of the bullpen. He would always come on strong in the first few innings.

Also surprised he wasn't claimed on waivers.

Bummer, we could have used him to buffer the bullpen workload. I would have felt pretty good about having a decent one-time-through-the-order lefty around just in case. Mediocre arms are tough to find these days.

No surprise here. He'll wind up somewhere else.

Robertson has never been particularly good as a reliever either.

 

I am just glad the Fish traded a promising young LHP reliever for a guy everyone knew sucked something awful.

Weird that he wasn't claimed. He's basically a free LHP who could spot start and pitch in the pen.

Damn. Now we'll have no one to get Chase Utley and Ryan Howard out.

Robertson has never been particularly good as a reliever either.

 

I am just glad the Fish traded a promising young LHP reliever for a guy everyone knew sucked something awful.

 

 

We traded Jay Voss.

really need to trade cantu for a reliever. we need a lefty in the pen badd

I still don't understand why he wasn't at least given a shot out of the bullpen. He would always come on strong in the first few innings.

 

 

Agreed, I guess. Not something I'm sweating though.

I thought he'd be a pretty serviceable 5th starter for us.. I also thought Cantu was going to put up career numbers this year.

 

Time to stop making predictions.

Robertson has never been particularly good as a reliever either.

 

I am just glad the Fish traded a promising young LHP reliever for a guy everyone knew sucked something awful.

 

 

We traded Jay Voss.

Exactly. A promising young LHP.

Robertson has never been particularly good as a reliever either.

 

I am just glad the Fish traded a promising young LHP reliever for a guy everyone knew sucked something awful.

 

 

We traded Jay Voss.

Exactly. A promising young LHP.

 

 

6.41 ERA and a 1.856 WHIP as a 23 year old in Double A is promising?

He Goooone!

 

I won't miss him.

Robertson has never been particularly good as a reliever either.

 

I am just glad the Fish traded a promising young LHP reliever for a guy everyone knew sucked something awful.

 

 

We traded Jay Voss.

Exactly. A promising young LHP.

 

 

6.41 ERA and a 1.856 WHIP as a 23 year old in Double A is promising?

 

 

 

It's promising. I mean, he can't get any worse right? RIGHT?

Robertson has never been particularly good as a reliever either.

 

I am just glad the Fish traded a promising young LHP reliever for a guy everyone knew sucked something awful.

 

 

We traded Jay Voss.

Exactly. A promising young LHP.

 

 

6.41 ERA and a 1.856 WHIP as a 23 year old in Double A is promising?

I thought you were talking about Andrew Miller for a second and then I realized he was 25.

Last year as a 22 year old in AA, Voss had a 36.1 IP, 36 K, 2.97 ERA, 1.13 WHIP. He has been almost unhittable at Lakeland since going down to work on mechanics.

He's also suffering from a loss of velo, which the FO probably knew when they gave him up. I didn't like the trade at the time but if they recognized Voss as a lost cause then they knew they weren't giving up anything.

I still don't understand why he wasn't at least given a shot out of the bullpen. He would always come on strong in the first few innings.

 

 

This was my initial thought... not even a shot at a reliever?

Robertson has been awful as a reliever in his career. Thank your lucky stars he wasnt given a shot.

Had to be done, hopefully someone can step up and be the 5th starter, I doubt the front office will pick up a new starter though we need one. Bullpen should be the priority, but a starter would be nice too.

If spike is this vehemently against NateRob as a reliever, he'll probably come in and be light's out.

Not vehemently against him, just saying. His career line as a reliever is 7.33 ERA, 1.81 WHIP, and .287/.387/.508 against.

It's also a super duper small sample size.

 

Also, generally speaking you are often fantastically wrong about anything.