{"id":2660,"date":"2012-05-16T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2012-06-16T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:47:25","slug":"well-i-guess-that-ends-the-competition-for-the-clo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/well-i-guess-that-ends-the-competition-for-the-clo\/","title":{"rendered":"Robertson Placed on DL, Soriano Now Yankees&#8217; Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I guess that ends the competition for the closer role, at least for now. I just hope we&#039;re not looking at another DL-busting season like a few years ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/new-york\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/7934289\/new-york-yankees-place-closer-david-robertson-15-day-dl\" target=\"_blank\">Yankees place closer Robertson on 15-day DL<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\" style=\"float:left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/new-york\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/7934289\/new-york-yankees-place-closer-david-robertson-15-day-dl\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&amp;gadget=a&amp;resize_h=100&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fa.espncdn.com%2Fmedia%2Fmotion%2F2012%2F0516%2Fnyc_120516_robertson_to_the_dl.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">The New York Yankees have placed closer David Robertson on the 15-day disabled list after tests revealed the right-hander suffered a strained left oblique while pitching against the Seattle Mariners o&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110201780316922068503\/posts\/6GAYLe8LEWo\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H4>Related Awesome<\/H4><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"For LeBron, Not Just a Title Earned Last Night, But Some Redemption\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/lebrons-championship\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">For LeBron, Not Just a Title Earned Last Night, But Some Redemption<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Spike Lee is Directing Mike Tyson&#8217;s Broadway Play\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/mike-tyson-broadway\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Spike Lee is Directing Mike Tyson&#8217;s Broadway Play<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Yet Another Perfect Game: Should Fans Be Worried?\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/perfect-game-worry\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Yet Another Perfect Game: Should Fans Be Worried?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I guess that ends the competition for the closer role, at least for now. 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Yankees place closer Robertson on 15-day DL The New York Yankees have placed closer David Robertson on the 15-day disabled list after tests revealed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,3,63],"tags":[286,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Robertson Placed on DL, Soriano Now Yankees&#039; Closer - Paper Awesome<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixel-shredder.com\/blog\/well-i-guess-that-ends-the-competition-for-the-clo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Robertson Placed on DL, Soriano Now Yankees&#039; Closer - Paper Awesome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well I guess that ends the competition for the closer role, at least for now. 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