Mark DeRosa Recovering Well After Season-Ending Wrist Surgery

Mark DeRosa spent a good portion of the year dealing with a tricky wrist and complaining an operation that didn’t fix what was wrong. He had to undergo a second surgery on his wrist, but now this story has a happy ending:

DeRosa should be able to swing a bat before the end of September, putting him in line to be healthy in plenty of time for 2011. All that really remains to be seen is whether he has any significant playing time waiting at the other end.

Mark DeRosa’s latest setback seemed to be enough to push him to another surgery, but, says Henry Schulman, we’re not quite there yet:

The odds, of course, remain that DeRosa will need an operation to fix his wrist, but he and the team refuse to give up hope.

Mark DeRosa - he of the ‘total failure’ wrist surgery - re-injured himself, and now looks all but set for a second surgery that would end his season.

It’s a tough break for DeRosa, but an inevitable one, and if nothing else, at least this should repair what was never repaired. In the meantime, the streaking Andres Torres will continue to get regular time in the outfield, while newcomer Pat Burrell gets spot starts and some appearances off the bench.