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Can't link to that August bit, Doc, so I might be repeating myself. 
It's a short-pitcher problem, or at least I think it is with hard throwers. The lever isn't as long since his arms are shorter and the downward plane is harder to achieve with his lack of height, so as he gets tired he gets the ball up and gets hit around more easily, or his mechanics get ugly.  
His lower half needs to be stronger.  Oswalt used to have that problem, I believe, and Lincecum this year started working the lower half like never before to compensate for not being able to fireball the pitch in there like he had been.
Robles - a bigger body anyway who may wind up with more than a little Bartolo Colon in him - just needs to run stairs all off-season, and then correct his footwork as indicated.   
There's no way I take a not-yet-22 year old in AAA who throws 95 for a hundred pitches - as a lefty - out of the starting rotation.
Not until I'm REALLY sure he can't stay.  If he has to go to the bullpen, then he has to.  It happened with Eric Gagne, a hard-throwing righty with the same height and build issues. The Dodgers tried til he was 26 to get him to start.  After 3 unsuccessful years at that in the pros they moved him to the pen and he killed. 
Maybe some of that was steroids, but he was always a good arm.
Robles has the same high-K and low-hit approach, but with less-repeatable mechanics he's walking more guys.
I don't know if more stamina or better footwork should be the first step, but if a guy is unhittable and strikes out the world when he gets it over the plate, you sorta want him to throw more than 15 pitches a game.
Please, PLEASE make him a project of somebody, because the arm is worth it.
~G