Roster Rumblings: George Sherrill, Gerald Laird et al.
From the first morning of the first day of Winter Meetings:
- Both Bill at DTW and Brian at Tigerblog wonder if Dodgers reliever George Sherrill would be a good fit for the Tigers. Given the Tigers already have a few lefties in the bullpen, I'm not sure I really buy into this one. He does have 55 more saves than Bobby Seay and 56 more than Ryan Perry, but as I've always said: Closers are the salt and pepper on a team. The Tigers need to work on getting the main ingredients together in the infield still.
- Kevin Brown of Yahoo! Sports tweets the Tigers might also be looking at Kevin Gregg.
- In a piece looking at the Tigers' needs and trade assets, MLB.com's Jason Beck wonders if catcher Gerald Laird is available.
- USA Today's Bob Nightengale tweets Edwin Jackson's name is being heard frequently around the lobby. (Probably spoken by one reporter to the next hoping something happens to write about, but he leaves that part out.)
- And the Yankees may really want Curtis Granderson, NYPost's Joel Sherman tweets.
- MLive's Steve Kornacki shares his ideas on what the Tigers might do this week.
- The News' Tony Paul gives some of the storylines he sees, as well, expanding it to all of the baseball landscape.
- At Bless You Boys, Ian asks what you believe the Tigers' biggest need is. My answer? Shortstop. They've got their starting outfielders lined up already, and plenty of relievers. But short is totally empty.
- And finally this afternoon, also via BYB, we have this quote from ex-Freeper Jon Paul Morosi that sums it all up:
I don't know what the Tigers are going to do this week. The Tigers don't know what the Tigers are going to do this week.
