Fantasy Impact: Cardinals’ Chris Perez dealt for Indians’ Mark DeRosa

June 28, 2009

The obvious fantasy impact is that AL-only fantasy GM’s have lost a valuable offensive commodity in Mark DeRosa, a player who qualified at three different positions and was mashing the ball.  Conversely, NL-only fantasy GM’s net a slugging middle infielder and all at the price of a mediocre middle reliever with no chance of notching saves. 

The impact of the deal for both players is that DeRosa will presumably slot into the hot corner for St. Louis, but his versatility and the potential return of Troy Glaus (or call-up of Brett Wallace) could drive DeRosa to second base, giving him yet more fantasy value.  The impact for Chris Perez is almost nil.  He had been outplayed by Ryan Franklin in St. Louis and was afforded no real opportunity to take hold of the closer job, and in Cleveland he will set-up for Kerry Wood.  The only difference is that Wood has been awful and Perez will neatly fit into the “closer of the future” in Cleveland too.    Just don’t expect any saves from Perez any time soon – and along those same lines, expect some bumps along the way as he adjusts to facing a DH and more beefy AL lineups..

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