Yankees After George Sherrill?

[Timmer]

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Nice find by RotoWorld - at the bottom of this Bergen Record article, there's mention of the Yankees' interest in southpaw reliever George Sherrill.

Presumably, Sherrill would be a backup plan if the Yanks can't acquire Mike Gonzalez. From what I hear, there are still a handful of teams involved on the Pittsburgh reliever.

Sherrill has an interesting stat line that doesn't seem repeatable - fewer than seven hits per nine, zero home runs in 40 innings, a 4.28 ERA despite six walks per nine. If used as a strict LOOGY, though, he should be pretty good.

If we can't get Gonzalez or Schoenweis, or bring back Villone, this is a pretty good fallback plan. What do you think Seattle might want or him?

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Timmer

MLB Trade Rumors



If we can't get Gonzalez or Schoenweis, or bring back Villone, this is a pretty good fallback plan. What do you think Seattle might want or him?

I don't really like him. I don't think it would cost that much to get him though so if the Yankees feel the need to acquire another lefty and can't get their primary targets, I guess it would be okay.