3. Dealing DeRosa
This is the point that I expect disagreement on. Here are the facts; DeRosa is in the last year of his deal, is coming off a career year and will be 33 years old. Mike Fontenot outperformed him last year and will be cheap for the next several seasons. It makes no sense to sign DeRosa, so we might as well move him now. His multi-position flexibility will be intriguing to GM's and everyone always values good hitting from the middle infield. Look at what Atlanta got for a worse player in Edgar Renteria; Gorkys Hernandez (better than any prospect we have outside of Vitters) and Jair Jurrjens (3.81 ERA in a full season of starting last year).
That's why I want to deal DeRosa for the best prospects available. With the Harden and possible Peavy deals, a barren farm system has gotten worse. We need to inject some new life into the system.
Mission accomplished, I guess. To be honest I was expecting much more known prospects as the return, but in principle it was an excellent decision.
