Another in the long line of bad Sabean signings. This is right in his wheelhouse. An aging, injured veteran has an over-his-head year and cashes in at the Giants ATM machine.
This is the same methodology that failed when they had the best player on the planet in the middle of the lineup. Add DeRosa to the Rowand and Renteria deals as further roster clogging, payroll-artery-clogging nonsense that has been a hallmark of the Sabean years.
DeRosa's best year recently was with the Cubs a few years back. Given the Wrigley Field, statistic enhancing advantage he went 21HR-87RBI-.857OPS. He can hardly be expected to approach those numbers at Phone Number Field. Last year his OPS dropped to .767 by comparison Aaron Rowand limped in this year at .738. Heck, Juan Uribe had an .824 OPS last year and you might get him for $1M a year. And DeRosa gets 2 years @ $12 million? If he was that good, I imagine the Cardinals would have kept him.
His OPS looks good only by comparison with the 2009 Giants anemic offerings. I guess when you paid Bengie Molina to produce a .727 OPS and Randy Winn to kick in with .671, DeRosa is a stud-puppet by comparison. But the Giants jump right back on the treadmill, running hard, getting nowhere.
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