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Baseball Musings
February 04, 2008
Flip that Reliever

Here's the latest Orioles rumor:

Once completed the deal will likely be announced this afternoon or tomorrow morning. League Officials now expect the deal that would send Roberts to the Cubs to be finalized and completed by the weekend. They now expect that George Sherrill to be part of the deal. The O's have no use for a 31 year old reliever in there pen and want to get younger. Sherrill will ensure that the O's will get at least two pitchers in the deal from the Cubs.

Remember to take everything you hear about this deal with a huge grain of salt. Thanks to David Gerstman for the heads up.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:00 PM | Trades | TrackBack (0)
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Why do the Cubs need another reliever? If anything, that should be the one part of the team that was pretty well set.

Posted by: Matt at February 4, 2008 04:13 PM

A reliever? Why do they need another 2b? The Cubs should be targeting a shortstop to insure Theriot doesn't get more than 200 ABs this season! You can live with DeRosa at second, he'll give you slightly above replacement-level production at 2B. The Cubs should be targeting Furcal, why the hell do they even want Roberts? Is DeRosa going to play SS? Can he? The Cubs (Hendry/Hughes) have to have the dumbest front office in baseball.

Posted by: SS at February 4, 2008 05:02 PM

Depending upon who they get in return for Roberts and Sherrill, the Orioles seem to be making the right moves here. Sherrill is not going to be part of the rebuilding effort. Some of this may explain why this took an extra week.

Posted by: wph at February 4, 2008 05:23 PM

Gee thanks for that huge boost to my credibility.
:-)

Posted by: soccer dad at February 4, 2008 06:16 PM

This is absolute Rubbish,

1st off we not only need Sherrill but he will be trying out for our open closer role. Secondly we are not trading Roberts alone for 2 of the Cubs potentially mediocre starting pitchers let alone include Sherrill.

The Cubs apparently think they can package spare parts for a brand new car, but if they want the best leadoff/ basestealin player in the game their going to have to give up someone who atleast has the potential to be as good as Roberts. aka. Felix Pie.

Add Sean Gallagher and its a deal. However even that deal does not include Sherill.

Posted by: Capella at February 5, 2008 01:18 PM
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