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Henderickson as a closer is an interesting thought but i don't see him with that "IT" factor that most successful closers have. He gave the O's no real value in his previous roll but now he is. I see no reason to mess with him you may end up back with him carrying no value at all. As far as i'm concerned i believe we may actually have teams fooled in believing he's worth trading for since moving him into the roll he's in. If we can get something for him great because its a matter of time before he implodes again anway.

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I disagree it creates a large one. No disrespect to GS at all, but if you are not a dominant reliever ala Papelbon, Rivera, etc, it's a no brainer to deal that reliever for a potential young, cheap, longterm talent. In fact I don't see why more teams don't trade their closers at peak value if they are not dominant and then just make someone else the closer.

GS doesn't even have as much value to us as he should because he shouldn't be used primarily as the closer. This is the case for most teams though.

Look at Lidge. Look at BJ Ryan. Look at Steve Kline, Mike DeJean. Borowski, Heilman...These guys are so inconsistent. Banking on GS doing this every year is not really smart, and even if he is this good every year, he is fairly easily replacable especially with our abundance of pitching talent in the organization.

There is not one player in our system who you could plug into closer and expect to be successful 4 out of 5 times. Plug in all the suspects you want but we don't have that player.

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I would trade him as long as it's for a young major league ready player like Wood. I'd pass on Bell. It he does trade GS it's doubtful he can orchestrate any other moves at the same time.

Why do you say that? I'm pretty sure he could swing a couple smaller deals at the same time.

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Sure we can keep trading all-star caliber players for prospects. Sherill has an easy 3 years of pitching in him.

I guess I will start watching the minor league games. Cant keep recycling players and building other teams FRANCHISES while we build our FARM SYSTEM.

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I would trade him as long as it's for a young major league ready player like Wood. I'd pass on Bell. It he does trade GS it's doubtful he can orchestrate any other moves at the same time.

Thanks for the response. Why do you put Wood over Bell?

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I would trade him as long as it's for a young major league ready player like Wood. I'd pass on Bell. It he does trade GS it's doubtful he can orchestrate any other moves at the same time.

So, even if the player is older and not as good, you would still take him because he is more ML ready?

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There is not one player in our system who you could plug into closer and expect to be successful 4 out of 5 times. Plug in all the suspects you want but we don't have that player.

Sherill before the Orioles plugged him in as the closer, was a run of the mill 30 year old LOOGY. A suspect at closing if you ask me...

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Sure we can keep trading all-star caliber players for prospects. Sherill has an easy 3 years of pitching in him.

I guess I will start watching the minor league games. Cant keep recycling players and building other teams FRANCHISES while we build our FARM SYSTEM.

That is what rebuilding teams do. You can not sit and wait around having 1-3 all stars on the team and losing year in and out. You trade your all stars for possibly 9 guys? (coming out of the Bedard trade)and get more all stars.

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There is not one player in our system who you could plug into closer and expect to be successful 4 out of 5 times. Plug in all the suspects you want but we don't have that player.

I disagree with this....And based on Sherrill's track record in the second half, he isn't going to save 4 out of every 5 either.

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There is not one player in our system who you could plug into closer and expect to be successful 4 out of 5 times. Plug in all the suspects you want but we don't have that player.

I'd be quite happy turning the job over to Mickolio and letting him give it a shot. He has the stuff to be even better than Sherrill at his peak IMHO.

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Who's preferred, Wood or Bell? Personally, I'd like to see us grab someone who could play first, and go after someone like Marte (wouldn't take much) and see what he could do next year. Had a great AAA and just got called up but not much of a chance for a future in Cleveland.

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Sherill before the Orioles plugged him in as the closer, was a run of the mill 30 year old LOOGY. A suspect at closing if you ask me...

I presume you wouldn't be surprised then if the Dodgers or Angels refuse to give up a top 5 pick as part of the package for him?

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I'd be quite happy turning the job over to Mickolio and letting him give it a shot. He has the stuff to be even better than Sherrill at his peak IMHO.

Ray(if healthy), Jim Miller, Mickolio, JJ, Koji, etc...

Plenty of guys can do it.

Koji is my choice.

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