After not finding the contract that he sought in free agency last winter, David Robertson returned home to Rhode Island with unplanned leisure time on his calendar. “I played a lot of tennis,” he said.

The Philadelphia Phillies have one major need to gain traction on the top spot in the National League and that’s their bullpen. And they won’t have to go far to

Suárez’s velocity has, broadly, fallen across his repertoire since May. Manager Rob Thomson and the lefty say they are not concerned.

Sánchez struck out 12 and allowed just one earned run. The Phillies scored on a catcher's interference call for the second straight game in the first inning.

The Phillies took a step towards fortifying a leaky bullpen on Sunday when they reportedly signed 40-year-old reliever David Robertson.

We're clear of the All-Star break and the MLB Draft, and that means the next big date on the baseball calendar is the July 31 trade deadline. Speaking of which, each day leading up to the deadline brings us a fresh supply of deadline rumors,