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David Robertson

David Alan Robertson (Houdini)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: April 9, 1985 in Birmingham, AL
High School: Paul W. Bryant (Tuscaloosa, AL)
School: University of Alabama
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 17th round of the 2006 amateur draft.
Signed August 21, 2006. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 29, 2008
Team: Yankees 2008-2011
2012 Contract Status: 1st-Year Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$460k (11), 1 yr/$1.6M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.070, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
Relatives: Brother of Connor Robertson
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All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Greg Maddux… #3. Cy Young… #4. Randy Johnson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Christy Mathewson…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Greg Maddux… #3. Cy Young… #4. Randy Johnson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Christy Mathewson…

Standard Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2007	22	NYY-min	A,A+,AA	8	3	.727	0.96	44	16	4	84.1	45	12	9	0	32	0	113	0	0	8	328		0.913	4.8	0.0	3.4	12.1	3.53	CHS,TAM,TRE · SALL,FLOR,EL
2008	23	NYY-min	AAA,AA	4	0	1.000	1.68	30	9	3	53.2	28	13	10	1	23	1	77	2	0	2	214		0.950	4.7	0.2	3.9	12.9	3.35	SWB,TRE · IL,EL
2008	23	NYY	AL	4	0	1.000	5.34	25	8	0	30.1	29	18	18	3	15	2	36	0	0	6	131	84	1.451	8.6	0.9	4.5	10.7	2.40
2009	24	NYY-min	AAA	0	3	.000	1.84	8	4	2	14.2	10	7	3	0	6	1	25	0	0	0	59		1.091	6.1	0.0	3.7	15.3	4.17	SWB · IL
2009	24	NYY	AL	2	1	.667	3.30	45	20	1	43.2	36	19	16	4	23	1	63	1	0	6	191	140	1.351	7.4	0.8	4.7	13.0	2.74
2010	25	NYY	AL	4	5	.444	3.82	64	10	1	61.1	59	26	26	5	33	6	71	3	2	7	273	114	1.500	8.7	0.7	4.8	10.4	2.15
2011	26	NYY	AL	4	0	1.000	1.08	70	8	1	66.2	40	9	8	1	35	6	100	1	1	6	272	410	1.125	5.4	0.1	4.7	13.5	2.86	AS,CYA-11,MVP-22
4 Seasons				14	6	.700	3.03	204	46	3	202.0	164	72	68	13	106	15	270	5	3	25	867	147	1.337	7.3	0.6	4.7	12.0	2.55
162 Game Avg.				5	2	.700	3.03	68	15	1	67	55	24	23	4	35	5	90	2	1	8	289	147	1.337	7.3	0.6	4.7	12.0	2.55

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Awards
2008	23	NYY	AL	30.1	18	20	0	.7	2	0.0	$
2009	24	NYY	AL	43.2	19	27	0	.7	8	0.4	$
2010	25	NYY	AL	61.1	26	34	0	1.2	8	0.9	$426,650
2011	26	NYY	AL	66.2	9	40	0	1.7	31	3.9	$460,450	AS,CYA-11,MVP-22
4 Seasons				202.0	72	121	1	1.2	49	5.2	$887,100

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	W-L%	ERA	G	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2009	24	NYY	AL	ALDS	W	MIN	1	1.000	0.00	1	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2009	24	NYY	AL	ALCS	W	LAA	1	1.000	0.00	2	1	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	10	1.500	4.5	0.0	9.0	4.5	0.50
2009	24	NYY	AL	WS	W	PHI	0		0.00	2	0	2.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	10	1.286	7.7	0.0	3.9	7.7	2.00
2010	25	NYY	AL	ALDS	W	MIN	0		0.00	2	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1.500	0.0	0.0	13.5	13.5	1.00
2010	25	NYY	AL	ALCS	L	TEX	0		20.25	4	0	2.2	8	6	6	1	1	1	4	0	1	17	3.375	27.0	3.4	3.4	13.5	4.00
2011	26	NYY	AL	ALDS	L	DET	0		0.00	2	1	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	7	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0
3 Seasons (6 Series)							2	1.000	5.06	13	3	10.2	12	6	6	1	5	3	10	1	1	51	1.594	10.1	0.8	4.2	8.4	2.00
3 ALDS							1	1.000	0.00	5	2	3.2	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	14	0.545	2.5	0.0	2.5	7.4	3.00
2 ALCS							1	1.000	11.57	6	1	4.2	9	6	6	1	3	3	5	0	1	27	2.571	17.4	1.9	5.8	9.6	1.67
1 WS							0		0.00	2	0	2.1	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	10	1.286	7.7	0.0	3.9	7.7	2.00

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	Pos	Awards
2007	22	NYY-min	A,A+,AA	44	CHS,TAM,TRE · SALL,FLOR,EL
2008	23	NYY-min	AAA,AA	30	SWB,TRE · IL,EL
2008	23	NYY	AL	25	1
2009	24	NYY-min	AAA	8	SWB · IL
2009	24	NYY	AL	45	1
2010	25	NYY	AL	64	1
2011	26	NYY	AL	8	1	AS,CYA-11,MVP-22
4 Seasons				142
162 Game Avg.				162

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Salary	Pos	Awards
2010	25	NYY	AL	$426,650	1
2011	26	NYY	AL	$460,450	1	AS,CYA-11,MVP-22
2 Seasons				$887,100

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G
2009	24	NYY	AL	ALCS	LAA	W	1
2009	24	NYY	AL	WS	PHI	W	1
1 Season (2 Series)							2
1 ALCS							1
1 WS							1

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Awards
2008	NYY	AL	23	P	25			30.1	4	1	3	0	1.000	-2	-13	1.19	0.16	.952	1.60	1.59
2009	NYY	AL	24	P	45			43.2	3	0	3	0	1.000	-1	-5	0.62	0.07	.953	1.53	1.51
2010	NYY	AL	25	P	64			61.1	5	0	5	0	1.000	-2	-7	0.73	0.08	.952	1.63	1.61
2011	NYY	AL	26	P	70	0	0	66.2	7	3	3	1	.857	-2	-6	0.81	0.09	.949	1.61	1.59	16	2	11%	0	AS,CYA-11,MVP-22
	4 Seasons			P	204	0	0	202.0	19	4	14	1	.947	-7	-6	0.80	0.09	.951	1.60	1.58	16	2	11%	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	204	0	0	202.0	19	4	14	1	.947	-7	-41	0.80	0.09	.951	1.60	1.58	16	2	11%	0

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 2011 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2011 AL (22, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1713th)	Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2011 AL (11, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (283rd)	Games Played s c a p y 2011 AL 70 (5th)
Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 2011 AL 23 (9th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 2011 AL 2.3 (9th)	Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 2011 AL 28.54 (7th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2011 AL 4.2 (5th)
Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 2011 AL 2.8 (9th)	Def. Games as P s c a p y 2011 AL 70 (5th)	Fielding % as P s c a p y 2010 AL 1.000 (1st)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink	Pitching - 1 (2585), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 11 (915), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

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Transactions

June 6, 2006: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 17th round of the 2006 amateur draft. Player signed August 21, 2006.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
2010	25	New York Yankees	$426,650
2011	26	New York Yankees	$460,450

2012	27	New York Yankees	$1,600,000

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$887,100	Does not include future salaries

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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