Introduction
Robert Michael File (born January 28, 1977) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. File spent three plus seasons as a reliever with the Toronto Blue Jays from 2001 to 2004. Signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2005, retiring shortly after spring training with a back injury.
File was drafted as a third baseman out of NCAA Division II, then converted to pitcher while in the Jays' farm system.
File is a former pitching coach at La Salle University in Philadelphia. La Salle University competes at the Division I level in the Atlantic 10 baseball conference.
Pitching Style and Biography
File threw a 96 MPH four-seam fastball, an excellent 91-94 MPH sinker, a 77-82 MPH slider, and a 78-80 MPH fosh (hybrid-splitfinger).
Blue Jay's right-hander Bob File is one of the seven pitchers in major-league history to win a game in his first appearance while throwing five pitches or fewer.
Bob File was one of the top players in the history of Philadelphia University Men's Baseball Program.
• Earned ABCA/Rawlings first-team All-American honors as a senior in 1998.
• Earned ECAC (East Coast Athletic Conference) Player of the Year honors as a senior in 1998.
• Three-time NYCAC (New York Collegiate Athletic Conference) All-Conference selection, earning Player of the Year honors in 1998.
• Set several school hitting records as a senior in 1998, including a .542 batting average.
• .542 batting average in 1998 #1 in the country, leading all NCAA baseball.
• Also set single season records with 90 hits, 63 runs, 68 RBI, 19 home runs, and 167 total bases in 1998.
• Is the University's all-time leader in nearly every career hitting category including runs (181), hits (296), triples (17) and home runs (37).