Los Angeles Dodgers Acquire George Sherrill From Baltimore Orioles
The Los Angeles Dodgers, while still pursuing a trade for Roy Halladay, switched their attention for a second to the back-end of their bullpen. This afternoon they acquired Baltimore Orioles’ closer George Sherrill for minor-leaguers Josh Bell and Steve Johnson.
With Jonathan Broxton already firmly entrenched as the Dodgers’ closer, Sherrill becomes the Dodgers’ primary eighth-inning guy. Sherrill thrived in a middle-relief role with the Mariners in 2007 (2.36 ERA in 73 games), so I don’t think going from a closer to an eighth-inning guy will affect him like it did Eric Gagne and JJ Putz when they made the move.
Sherrill came to the Orioles in the extremely lopsided Erik Be...
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