If This Were Any Other Player

Now that the Cardinals season is unfortunately over we can take another look at how Mark DeRosa’s teams perform in the playoffs. DeRosa has been in the playoffs in 6 different seasons (2001-2003, 2007-2009). He’s played on some really good teams. He came up with the Braves and then was a part of the Cubs back to back division championships before ending up in St. Louis in 2009. The only series in which one of DeRosa’s teams advanced was in a series in 2001. He saw all of one plate appearance in that entire series. Since then, DeRosa’s teams have won only 2 games in the playoffs and 1 of those came against the Cubs in 2003. He’s been a part of 11 consecutive playoff losses going back to 2003. Overall, Derosa’s teams are 3-19 when he plays. DeRosa played the entire game in only 10 of those 19 and the team record was 1-9. That 1 win came against the Cubs so we’re not even sure it should count. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing! Seriously. Well, I guess it means that the teams he’s played on simply haven’t performed very well even though DeRosa has done his job. It also means people are dumbasses because if it were Ramirez, Soriano or Zambrano, the media and fans would be talking about these guys as if it’s their fault the team has performed the way it has. Mark DeRosa’s teams have sucked ass in the playoffs and the dumbshits who think 10 or 12 games is a large sample, ignore it. Has Sullivan, Whittenmeyer or any of the other hacks written about how poorly DeRosa’s teams have performed in the playoffs? Does anybody doubt that they would be talking about it endlessly if it were Soriano, Ramirez or Zambrano.