DeRosa Traded to Indians

[Clapp]

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Yeah? What percentage of total payroll is Marquis' salary? About 6%? And yet, Hendry has to dump Marquis' salary in order to make the Bradley signing (or the Peavy trade, or whatever). It's clear that every dollar (or every million dollars) counts right now. And regardless of what percentage of the payroll Miles is eating up, he's making about $2M too much.
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Miles' line last year:
.317/.355/.398

He's no world beater, but I fail to see how he's not worth $2 or $3 M a year.
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Yep, he's worth the money and like Fella brought up to me last night, Miles seems like the kind of guy that would be a good postseason player. By adding Miles and Gathright we've gotten some more speed and a better ability to play some small ball, something that would've been nice the last 2 postseasons.