Dodgers reliever George Sherrill received a warning letter from MLB vice president of on-field operations Bob Watson for taking too long to warm up last month.

The letter tells Sherrill that he took 45 seconds to long to throw his eight warm up pitches.

First time I got something like that,” Sherrill said. “It’s my seventh year in the big leagues, and I’ve never gotten one before. The thing is, you sit there and watch a game, and guys are throwing strikes on top of strikes, and [the umpires] are not calling them. That’s why games are taking so long, not because a guy has a little extra time to warm up.”

Luckily for Sherrill he was not fined and he can complain directly his manager Joe Torre, who sits on a committee that deals with on-field issues.

Information from Evan Drellich of MLB.com was used in this article.