The Orioles avoided salary arbitration with George Sherrill, signing the All-Star reliever last night to a $2.75million deal for the 2009 season. Sherrill, who saved 31 games last season, tripled his salary from 2008. Sherrill had asked for $3.4million, and the Orioles had offered $2.2million. "We leave on Sunday [for spring training]. It's good to be able to fly down and have it behind us," Sherrill said. The arbitration hearing had been scheduled for Feb.19. The signing means the Orioles won't have any hearings again this season.
Orioles sign Sherrill to one-year, $2.75M deal -- baltimoresun.com
That's pretty much right in the middle of where the two sides were.
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I wish...
Athletes (and everyone really) would stop using the first-person plural. Even worse is when they use the second person.
George, friend, you alone signed that contract. You got it out of the way. Not you and several buddies. Not you and your agent (though he helped, to be sure). Not even you and your family. You are an individual man, possessing free will. Own up to it.
by pipkin on Feb 7, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I generally agree with you,
but in this case, I think the “we” and “us” refers to him and the Orioles. It’s not just left behind for him, it’s left behind for the team’s FO as well.
by zknower on Feb 7, 2009 12:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah i guess you're right
the larger principle still prevails
by pipkin on Feb 8, 2009 8:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
alrighty, then...
flat breezy time, motherfuckers!
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by j.q. higgins on Feb 7, 2009 12:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Georgie
Never a doubt, Georgie.
"This ain't a football game. We do this every day."
by Fear and Trembley on Feb 7, 2009 2:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Dammit, why am I so lukewarm about this nominally happy event? Somehow I can't shake the feeling that
the All-Star game — a great performance, where he deserved a W — was Flatbill’s career moment…and it’s going to be crapola city from here on out. At least as an Oriole. (He might have another anomaly half-season for the Cubs or something.)
C’mon, prove me wrong, Georgie…
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Feb 7, 2009 3:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Dude, he had ONE SAVE after July 27
Of course it was his career moment!
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by duck on Feb 7, 2009 7:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks, I *knew* there had to be something sensible lurking under that refused-to-be-shook feeling!
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Feb 8, 2009 12:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
of course, there weren't many save oppurtunities then.
It was typically a massacre one way or another.
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by getxstoked on Feb 8, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
because he was miscast
as a closer for most of the season yet he got away with it.
We are all probably speculating that it might take three or four ugly blown saves to get him back into a more optimal role.
by sanders833 on Feb 7, 2009 11:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
agreed
I too am a little worried about how he’s going to comeback this year. Relievers seem to fluctuate so much from year to year and he wasn’t exactly healthy in the second half of last year. Our bullpen could be fantastic or wretched, and I wouldn’t be surprised of anything in between.
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by dfa on Feb 9, 2009 2:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oooof...
This fucking guy makes $2.75 Mil this year? Oooof.
by Jonny Pops on Feb 8, 2009 10:54 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
He earned it last year
I just think if he was used more against lefties he would have some pretty fine numbers. As a closer, he just walks the guys he doesnt want to pitch to and that is a hire wire act ready to have an ugly ending. Hope it works out. I keep reading a lot of blurbs with Arrieta’s name mentioned as future closer. Kam closed last year in the minors. There is a lefty that Schmuck has on his roster projection. So maybe George will move around and Ray settles in. The pen looks deep but I do question if we have a true ninth inning guy and if we dont that undermines everything else.
by sanders833 on Feb 8, 2009 11:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's gonna be Ray, Johnson and Sherrill
in some combination at the end of games. That’s really not that bad as bullpens go. The question is, can we get through innings 1-6 on days Guts isn’t pitching?
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by duck on Feb 9, 2009 8:23 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He earned it?
What on earth are you talking about? He fucked the dog last year time and time again. He was an abomination in the second half. Something unholy. Everybody around here stopped watching games it was so bad.
by Jonny Pops on Feb 9, 2009 12:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He was hurt
by the time the team got REALLY bad.
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by duck on Feb 9, 2009 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What you meant to say was
He was actually pretty damn good in his new role at closer up until the ASG. I think started to come apart just before them because I remember expecting Bad Sherriff to make the Os a national laughing stock.
But for a while there, he was a legitimate closer. Baez got $6 for that spot and didn’t play, so say GS was worth that for half a season. He got overused, as we didn’t expect to have as many leads as we did by that point, so maybe he doesn’t have the durability. He was a lot better than Jaime Walker. Jay Gibbons got paid a lot more to sit around the house wanking.
IOW He’s not overpaid, he’s cheap, and you get what you pay for, at best.
Armchair Coach: DD should have realized this earlier and given someone else (like JJ) a shot at closing when GS started getting reliably shaky, like early August. Also, I just looked at his splits and DD should have put Lance Cormier in for non-save situations. ya rly. ]
ZAUN! ZAAAAAAAUN!
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by CoachOfEarl on Feb 9, 2009 9:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
No.
I meant to say he sucked second half. And using Gibbons, Jamie Walker and Danys Baez as examples just shows what neighborhood this conversation is taking place in. Even if Sherrill lives on the nicer side of that neighborhood.
by Jonny Pops on Feb 9, 2009 9:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Well I could have said
Agent: Best reliever in the All Star Game for the AL. Lots of saves. Lots.
But Agent already said it, and I don’t believe the value of it.
ZAUN! ZAAAAAAAUN!
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by CoachOfEarl on Feb 9, 2009 9:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And who else on our roster
is going to be even mediocre in that role at that price that’s not arb-eligible? Chris Ray and his soccer-mom butt takes what we pay him, remember?
Look, I know George Sherrill isn’t great. He’s not even very good. But he IS adequate/good. And an MLB-adequate end of the bullpen pitcher making $2.75M? Not so horrible.
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by duck on Feb 9, 2009 8:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He's not good.
He’s not even adequate. He played like a pile of shit in the second half last year. He was below league average last year in terms of adjusted OPS+ with a 96. A fucking closer, below league average. We’re paying too much to too many losers in our bullpen already, now we’ve got to pay this jackass too? As far as I’m concerned this flatbilled fat ass can go fuck himself until he learns to actually look at the plate before throwing the ball. No more of this using The Force shit.
Okay, I’m done.
by Jonny Pops on Feb 9, 2009 12:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Good lord JP
I think your way off base on George. Yes, he was bad in the second half and clearly hurt and exposed. He needs to be used properly. Its a one year deal. I am at least happy when the George Sherrill’s of the baseball world get a few bucks instead of morons like Manny Ramirez or Arod.
But yes I dont feel comfortable he will be our closer. But that isnt his fault. That is Andy’s.
by sanders833 on Feb 9, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Don't mind me.
I’m just venting some leftover frustrations from last season. And perhaps you’re right. Perhaps he doesn’t suck as bad as the game-blower we saw last year. But that remains to be seen. What I know for sure is that he made one of my favorite pastimes, watching baseball in the summer, an unbearable experience on many occasions, and that is something I do not forgive easily.
by Jonny Pops on Feb 9, 2009 1:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Tell us what you REALLY think
Although that ERA+ number (not OPS+) is rather telling….
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by duck on Feb 9, 2009 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh yeah....
….what Duck said. ERA+. Woops.
by Jonny Pops on Feb 9, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Was pretty easy to figure out
which you meant.
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by duck on Feb 9, 2009 1:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He's like our Oliver Perez
All star closer with 4.73 / 1.500 and 5.5 BB/9.
I hope he goes north as a setup man.
ZAUN! ZAAAAAAAUN!
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by CoachOfEarl on Feb 9, 2009 12:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Closer?
I don’t know that Sherrill is our closer anymore. Read his comments re: Chris Ray. Sounds like he expects to compete for the job, but says he has no problem being a set-up guy:
It was his job before I got here and I want to earn it from him. That’s the way it was last year. He’s one helluva closer and he’s proven it. I don’t think they want that type of pressure on him, but if he shows he’s ready, he’s ready. I’ll be proud to be his setup man if that’s how it works out. It’s about the team, just not about us. We want to make this organization into a winner.
Flat Breezy is all about the TEAM.
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by OEutaw on Feb 9, 2009 7:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Chris Ray...
Isn’t the best closer in baseball or for our team but he did a good job a few years ago. It will be interesting to see how he comes back after an injury. I like how he stresses the ‘team’ concept. I don’t think anyone wants closer by committe, that never turns out well. At the end of Spring Training, Trembely needs to define the rolls of Ray, Sherrill and Johnson and let them mentally prepare to pitch that way. If someone stinks the joint up as the year goes on then you toy with it. Hell is could be worse, Jorge Julio could still be sitting in the bull pen waiting for the ball each night, what a useless douche!
by wiggitywhales on Feb 9, 2009 10:27 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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