Cubs Close to Acquiring Aaron Heilman

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And if Derosa, at age 34, regresses from a career best year then we might miss him a little less. That's not a very big if.
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As Dirk said, we are definitely going to miss the 2008 version of Mark DeRosa. It remains to be seen if the 2009 version of DeRosa will be AS missed.
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Agreed. How quickly people forget Gary Gaetti... and every other veteran who the Cubs overpaid after an abnormally strong season.
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Gaetti? Really? Gaetti hadn't had a good season in 10 years (1995 being an outlier) before we picked him up mid-season. He was also 39 when we got him and 40 when we signed him to a 1-year deal.

Plus, we still had DeRosa under contract for relatively cheap when we traded him.

I don't see the comparison.