Hey Butch

[Baron]

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However, one has nothing to do with the other. </b>Let's do some math.

These players are likely to miss this many games (guesstimates, of course):

Bradley -- 60 - 70
Alf -- 20 - 30
Ramirez -- 20 - 30
Lee could use days off -- 20
Give Fontenot a rest against tough lefties -- 15

So, on the low end, that's about 135 games. On the high end, it's a full season worth of games. DeRosa can play all of those positions.

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It absolutely does. DeRosa was the starting 2b last year and played great baseball, they weren't going to take him out of the role if he were still on the team. I think Fontenot's got 100+ more at bats by this move.
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You can't see that even with Fontenot starting at 2B, DeRosa could still play 140+ games?
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Hendry: Don't worry about it Mike, even though DeRo was one of the top 3 2B in the NL last year you will get plenty of PT. Oh and DeRo, we are assuming Alf will be out a month and that Milton will also miss a month of baseball, so you will get plenty of time in the OF.

You really think that would have worked? You can't go into the season assuming people will get injured to allow enough at bats for Fontenot/DeRosa.