Alabama baseball has had 70 Major League Players in its long, storied history. In 2017, seven former Tide players played on the big stage. Today we will look at how they did, and in a later piece we will look at the minor league guys that are working hard to join them.
Robertson (D Rob), a Tuscaloosa native, started his career with the Yankees, but left in 2016 signing a four year-$48 million dollar deal with the Chicago White Sox. The ChiSox traded him back to New York at the trade deadline this season and he picked up right were he left off in the Big Apple, helping the team to the AL Championship series, where they lost to the eventual World Champion, Houston Astros.