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ESPN Baseball Tonight researcher Mark Simon has spent the past month surrounded by people wondering why the Dodgers would be so foolhardy in giving away Guillermo Mota (Paul Lo Duca aside for the moment), but writes that "one in-person view of Yhency Brazoban" explained it.
Simon hung out in the Dodger locker room long enough to ask Dodger closer Eric Gagne if he had any advice for Brazoban.
"No," Gagne said defiantly. "He doesn't need any."
Of course, the Dodgers would certainly look better if they had Brazoban pitching the seventh and Mota the eighth. But they'd also look a lot better if they had Brad Penny in the rotation, so it's just not fair to judge. Penny's injury continues to look like a case not only of unfortunate severity, but timing.
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