One scout told the New York Post it appeared Yankees closer David Robertson might have lost some velocity on his fastball this spring.
"He was 88 to 90 mph the last time I saw him and he is usually 92 and a tick above," the scout said. "His velocity was down a little bit. He can usually pop out a 93. I don’t know, he might have been working on something, but it was down."
As far as Robertson is concerned, a drop in velocity is news to him.
"I feel like I was throwing harder this spring than I ever have," he said, per The Star-Ledger. "That's good. I mean, I don't throw hard anyway to begin with."
Yankees manager Joe Girardi isn't buying what is being said about Robertson.
"You know I heard that the other day and that's not what we had our gun," Girardi said. "We had him up to 93, a lot of 91 and 92, which is pretty normal for David Robertson."