Jeff Robinson

Jeffrey Daniel Robinson (born December 13, 1960) is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played nine seasons for the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, California Angels and Chicago Cubs.

Professional career Robinson, a , relief pitcher, was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the fourteenth round of the 1982 amateur draft. He pitched six scoreless innings, allowing four hits, and struck out four batters and walked three in an 11–0 victory. He saw the same amount of time in 1987 with the Giants, but on August 21 he was traded with Scott Medvin to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Rick Reuschel. Two days later, Robinson won a game with his bat when he hit an unlikely home run, his first in the majors, off of closer Lee Smith to break a tie with two outs in the ninth inning.

Over the course of the whole 1987 season, he went 8–9 with an ERA of 2.85 – the lowest average of his career – in 81 relief appearances. In 1989, he started nineteen games and went 7–13 in 50 total appearances with an ERA of 4.58, which wasn't good enough to keep him in Pittsburgh. Following the season, he was traded with Willie Smith to the New York Yankees for catcher Don Slaught.

He started seeing less time in New York, pitching in about half the innings he did in his final season in Pittsburgh. He went 3–6 in 54 appearances with a 3.45 ERA. After the season, he was on the move once more. He was granted free agency by the Yankees and signed with the California Angels. With the Angels, he had perhaps his worst season; he failed to win a game and had his highest career ERA, at 5.37. The Angels released him following the season, and he signed a one-year contract with the Cubs.

In his final season in 1992, he went 4–3 with a 3.00 ERA. After his contract expired, he was granted free agency by the Cubs. A couple months later, he signed with the Cubs once more, but he never played another major league game, and his career eventually came to a close.