Right-handed reliever David Robertson announced his retirement from professional baseball on his personal social media pages on Friday.
“I’ve decided it’s time for me to hang up my spikes and retire from the game I’ve loved for as long as I can remember. Baseball has given me more than I ever dreamed possible over the last 19 seasons,” Robertson wrote on X.
“From winning a World Series, to pitching in an All-Star game, to representing the United States and bringing home a World Baseball Classic Gold and Olympic silver.”
Robertson, 40, played 17 Major League seasons, including parts of nine years with the New York Yankees. He was the last active member of the Yankees’ 2009 World Series champion team.
Robertson’s time with the Yankees
Robertson’s career totals include a 2.93 ERA and 179 saves in 881 appearances, finishing his career with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2025.
He was a 17th-round draft pick of the Yankees out of the University of Alabama in the 2006 MLB Draft and made his debut in 2008. During his lone All-Star selection season in 2011, Robertson posted a minuscule 1.08 ERA and struck out 100 batters in 66.2 innings as a key member of the Yankees’ bullpen in front of Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera.
A 2017 trade from the Chicago White Sox sent Robertson back to the Bronx, and he spent another season and a half with the AL East club. His career also included stints with the Tampa Bay Rays, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, Miami Marlins, and New York Mets.
