Robert Michael File (born January 28, 1977) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. File spent three-plus seasons as a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2001 to 2004. He 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.^[1]

File is a former pitching coach at La Salle University in Philadelphia. La Salle University competes at the NCAA Division I level in the Atlantic 10 baseball conference.

File threw a 96 MPH four-seam fastball, a 91–94 MPH sinker,^[2] a 77–82 MPH slider, and a 78–80 MPH fosh (hybrid-splitfinger).^[3]
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File is one of seven pitchers in major league history to win a game in his first appearance while throwing five pitches or fewer.^[5]

File was a standout infielder at Father Judge High School in Philadelphia before becoming a pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays.^[6]

File was one of the top players in the history of Philadelphia University's (now Thomas Jefferson University) 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 was #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).