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Make Your Predictions: Mark DeRosa

Mark DeRosa
Mark DeRosa
Rob Carr

It looks like the Jays intend to use Mark DeRosa as our 25 man, for better or worse. I guess it could be worse. It doesn't excite me, but then I guess the 25th man doesn't have to excite me, since most of the other 24 players do.

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2009 34 TOT MLB 139 576 515 78 129 23 1 23 78 3 2 47 121 .250 .319 .433 .752 99 223 11 7 2 5 1 5739/4D
2010 35 SFG NL 26 104 93 9 18 3 0 1 10 0 2 9 16 .194 .279 .258 .537 48 24 6 2 0 0 0 7/4
2011 36 SFG NL 47 97 86 9 24 2 0 0 12 1 1 8 18 .279 .351 .302 .653 89 26 4 2 0 1 0 53/4
2012 37 WSN NL 48 101 85 13 16 5 0 0 6 1 0 14 18 .188 .300 .247 .547 52 21 3 0 1 1 0 5/79346
15 Yrs 1153 3858 3429 515 927 184 11 93 458 23 18 330 658 .270 .340 .412 .752 95 1412 88 51 15 33 16
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 1/27/2013.

DeRosa hits lefties well, or at least used to hit lefties well, back when he used to get a reasonable number of at bats. Alex figures it is a character guy. Course last year Omar Vizquel was the character guy and that didn't turn out that well. When do 'character signings' go well? He can play all the positions, except catcher, (and I'd imagine he'll be the emergency catcher too). I'm hoping we don't see much of him. I likely wouldn't put him in center field either.

I don't really see much point to trying to guess what he will hit but I think we could make a game of trying to guess how many games he plays this year. Let's do that, the one who is closest to guessing the correct number of games played by Mark DeRosa this year, for the Jays, wins an prize that I have a full season to think about. Please don't mention this to the wonderful, lovely SB Nation lawyers.

I'm going to guess 45 games. and lets give him a batting line of .220/.290/.240.

Give us your best guess.