Equal amounts of both, I think. More the first. There is LITERALLY no reason whatsoever DeRosa should've been traded. None. Maybe if you were going to get a good return on him, it's an argument, but three minor league pitchers, unless at least two are pretty highly rated, is not a good return. Actually, there was LITERALLY many good reasons to trade a player as old as DeRosa with only one year on his contract. The return on DeRosa was decent and has the potential to be very good (in terms of the players being trading chips or as pitchers). The problem falls to how Hendry attempted to replace him on the team. With the latter Hendry completely dropped the ball. If he had, say, traded DeRosa and then signed Dunn instead of Bradley and Ray Durham to platoon 2B with Fontenot, this likely wouldn't be the mess it is now. Hindsight is always 20/20. Bradley raked last year along with Fontenot.