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First On the Block: Mark DeRosa

May 20, 2009 by 9 Comments

derosaThat took long. After last night’s debacle in Kansas City, the first sign of surrender has been posted on GM Mark Shapiro’s office door. According to SI.com’s Jon Heyman, the Indians are now fielding offers for the multi-positioned Mark DeRosa.

Heyman says:

The Mets are one possibility for DeRosa, since the versatile 34-year-old could play first base, but it’s believed Nick Johnson tops their wish list, with Aubrey Huff or possibly Russell Branyan likely ahead of DeRosa. The Mets would have greater interest in Indians star Victor Martinez, but there’s no indication Cleveland would consider trading him.

Really Jon? The Mets are more interested in Vic the Stick than DeRosa? In other related news, water is wet, fire is hot, and the Browns are a poorly run organization. DeRosa was added as the final piece to the 1-9 Tribe lineup and was though to handle the third base job. Instead, he has struggled defensively and with strikeouts, and has looked more like the second coming of Casey Blake. He is on a one year, $5.5 million deal and should attract several suitors.

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  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com Denny

    You may now return to your regularly scheduled moratorium.

  • Boomhauer

    I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I think I’d rather have Casey Blake than DeRosa. Blake was average defensively at third, DeRosa is a butcher. They’re about the same hitter.

  • http://www.waitingfornextyear.com DP

    I honestly thought/hoped they were going to put DeRosa at second, move Asdrubal to short, and Jhonny to third. That made more sense to me.

    Oh well, like it would have mattered anyway.

  • CleveFan38

    How surprising is this?
    This extending Spring Training in to the regular season, just shows how bad these teams are managed.
    These Shapiro/Wedge ballclubs have difficulty establishing anything, every year we suffer with players who are playing out of position, with out passion and the inability to make adjustments.
    I question if the players are actually running the asylum!

    Jim Ingraham of the Lake County News Herald had a great article yesterday that sums it up perfectly.
    http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2009/05/19/sports/nh914411.txt

    Why they even signed DeRosa, Delluci, Carroll and Graffanino explains their inability to develop players, in my opinion.

  • Omega King

    At this point, I hope they get something done quickly. Put Peralta at 3rd, Cabrera at SS, Valbuena at 2nd, and play Garko full time, rotating him, Martinez, and Francisco as DH, depending on who is going where.

    Play LaPorta in LF, Grady in CF, and Choo in RF. There. Now you have a set day-in, day-out line up.

    Batting order:

    Cabrera
    Choo
    Sizemore
    Martinez
    Peralta
    Garko
    Francisco
    LaPorta
    Valbuena

    Ta-da! I fixed the offense. I’m awesome.

    Too bad no one can fix the bullpen.

  • Harv 21

    Can’t help but make one comment before I “re-shun” the Indians.

    Starting to occur to me that the famous Wedge “grinding” philosophy, the idea that “it’s a long season, can’t get too high or low,” is excellent for developing young ball players in the minors or on a young, non-competing team. But once these guys are a little older and feel kind of comfortable it ain’t so effective in making Jenson Lewis keep the ball down, stopping Peralta from wandering around dazed and confused for a month, or reminding Sizemore what he does that helps the team’s offense. They may need to be handled differently, made to understand that 3 lost weeks in May shortens the season in a hurry, removed quickly when they have trouble envisioning the relationship between their performance and the futures of their and their manager’s careers. For Wedge, if you’ve always preached “grinding,” how do you suddenly switch gears and convince them its time to really turn it on? It’s certainly not all Wedge’s fault, certainly not the (horrible? historically unlucky?) bullpen evaluation. I’m just thinking already about this lost smoking wreckage of a season. The patient may still be on the surgeon’s table, but after these meltdowns the heart is already ripped out and tossed into the pathologist’s bucket. Somebody, call it.

  • Ben

    I miss Casey Blake. It’s pretty much come to that now.

  • Pat in CA

    Russell Branyan is on a wish list?

  • WahooDroo

    there is no reason sizemore is anywhere near the top of the lineup any more, meaning insert him at 7, 8, or 9. in addition to all of his struggles, now sizemore has a sore elbow, yet he still somehow dh’s. his average is creeping closer and closer to the mendoza line. is this gonna be one of those hafner mysterious hafner injuries that they allow him to play through, only to find out later that he needs time on the DL?

    give derosa and dellucci away already. at least blake was a clubhouse leader, something that wedge said they didn’t have this year. you can’t really lead a clubhouse while standing at home plate arguing a third strike every other game as derosa has been seen to do. the tribe should get rid of the relief corps this year and just go with 2 or 3 starting pitchers a day. by now anything is better than what we’ve seen.

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