Yhency Brazoban, who developed into a hard-throwing closer after his acquisition from the Yankees in the Kevin Brown trade in 2003, did not show this spring that he could recover from elbow and shoulder operations and was released by the Dodgers. In 2005, he saved 21 games as a fill-in for the injured Eric Gagne while appearing in 74. But he needed Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery in 2006 and shoulder labrum surgery in 2007.