Found June 18, 2009 on Los Angeles Times:
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With Shields injured and Arredondo demoted, Speier, Bulger and Oliver have helped shore up a potential weak spot. The seventh and eighth innings have been a trouble spot for the Angels, who began 2009 thinking they had two of the game's top setup men, right-hander Scot Shields , who went 35-29 with a 3.11 earned-run average from 2004 to 2008, and right-hander Jose Arredondo , who went 10-2 with a 1.62 ERA as a rookie in 2008.
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