Penn alum Mark DeRosa retires from MLB after 16 seasons

While Mark DeRosa played both football and baseball while at Penn, he was known for his long MLB career.

And that career has come to a close after 16 seasons in the Major Leagues.

DeRosa retired from the MLB yesterday after playing for eight different teams over the last one and a half decades. He will now become a studio analyst for MLB Network after serving as a guest analyst for the network during the 2011 and 2013 postseasons.

While at Penn, DeRosa played for the Quakers football team in 1994 and 1995 as the team’s starting quarterback, helping the squad to an Ivy League title and undefeated season in 1994.

Furthermore, the New Jersey native finished honorable mention All-Ivy while placing fifth all-time in passing yards for the Red and Blue.

Meanwhile, DeRosa played for Penn baseball from ‘94-96 before getting drafted in the seventh round of the 1996 MLB draft by the Atlanta Braves.

DeRosa would spend some time in the minor leagues before making his MLB debut in 1998 at shortstop. After six seasons with the Braves as a utility player and eventually the starting third baseman, he would move on to the Texas Rangers before bouncing around the majors for the next decade.

In his entire career, DeRosa finished with exactly 100 home runs, a .268 batting average and a World Series ring as a member of the 2010 San Francisco Giants.

DeRosa was the last active Penn alum in the MLB but he becomes the second former Penn baseball player to be a studio analyst in recent years, joining Doug Glanville.