It should not be a surprise the Yankees made no effort to re-sign David Robertson and in fact said a private good riddance to their longtime set-up reliever. Robertson’s role as the player rep who convinced the rest of the Yankee players it was a good thing to stiff the clubhouse guys, all the traveling support people and even the team’s ever-diligent, efficient traveling secretary, Ben Tuliebitz out of postseason money shares was simply unconscionable. At the same time, the players all voted to do it and the two veteran team leaders, Brett Gardner and CC Sabathia, failed to stand up. Team chemistry will be interesting in light of this. When the Yankee players report to spring training and face the Cucuza brothers in the clubhouse and see Tuliebitz about their housing arrangements, they should be ashamed of themselves…On Friday, the Tampa Bay Rays announced they are eliminating all the seating in the upper deck of Tropicana Field “to create a more intimate experience” for their fans. It is no coincidence this decision came a week after Rays outfielder Tommy Pham ripped the Tampa Bay community for non-support. “Do I think something has to happen, whether it’s a new ballpark, maybe a new city? I think so,” Pham said in a Sirius XM radio interview from the Dominican Republic where he is playing winter ball. “Because if you have a team that’s going to be winning 90 games (as the Rays did last year) and you don’t have any fan support (the Rays had a 7.9% decline in attendance – to 14,258, next to last in the majors – last year), that’s a huge problem. After MLB scuttled plans for the Rays to build a new stadium in the Ybor City section of Tampa last month and it was decided they would remain in St. Petersburg, in the worst facility in baseball, where they haven’t averaged over 20,000 fans since 2010, the general consensus is this team needs to be put out of its misery and moved to a city that will support it…Far be it for us to question Oakland A’s baseball operations chief Billy Beane’s motives, but in his never-ending efforts to field a competitive team on one of the most limited budgets in baseball, Beane allowed catcher Jonathan Lucroy to walk to the rival Angels for a very modest one-year/$3.35 million deal, and he apparently has no intention of re-signing veteran handyman Jed Lowrie. In doing so, Beane is really tampering with team chemistry, as Lucroy and Lowrie were real leaders in the A’s clubhouse last year, invaluable components in their surprising wild card season. Those kind of guys, with all their intangibles, are hard to replace.