ARLINGTON, Texas — The Philadelphia Phillies recalled 40-year-old reliever David Robertson from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Sunday, three weeks after he signed a free agent take care of the Nationwide League East leaders.
Robertson made six reduction appearances with Lehigh Valley and had a ten.13 ERA, although he had 4 scoreless outings. He struck out six, walked one and allowed 11 hits and 6 runs in 5 1/3 innings.
The Phillies made the transfer earlier than their sequence finale at Texas, the place Robertson was 3-4 with a 3.00 ERA in 68 video games final season.
Proper-hander Alan Rangel was optioned to Triple-A to make room on the 26-man roster.
Over his 16-year main league profession, Robertson, has a 2.91 ERA in 861 video games, all however a kind of in reduction. That is his third stint with the Phillies, first as a free agent earlier than the 2019 season after which after being acquired in a commerce from the Chicago Cubs in 2022. He performed 9 seasons with the Yankees over two totally different instances in New York, which drafted him within the seventeenth spherical of the 2006 novice draft.