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2012
Mariners Re-Sign Perez To $1.5MM Deal
An article by Hojo's Mojo
Updated Post 11/4
The Seattle Mariners announced that they have re-signed reliever Oliver Perez to a one-year contract for the 2013 season.
“We are happy to have reached a mutual agreement with Oliver,” said GM Jack Zduriencik in a statement. ”He did a very nice job in helping solidify our bullpen after his call up last summer. As a veteran left-hander, and one that had adjusted very nicely to his new role, we are looking forward to his contributions as we go into the 2013 campaign.”
Perez has reinvented himself and turned in a solid season in his first full season as a reliever while with Seattle.
He posted a 2.12 ERA and a 1.24 WHIP in 33 appearances and his fastball has been clocked at an average of 93.7 mph this season.
Original Post 11/1
Driven out of New York after failing to live up to a hefty contract and back to the depths of Double-A after almost a decade of Major League service, Oliver Perez faced a crossroads in his professional life last year.
Despite the continual adjustments that came with the new territory of relief pitching, Perez’s return to the Major Leagues was successful. The lefty turned into one of the better comeback stories in baseball in 2012, as he posted a 2.12 ERA in 33 appearances for the Mariners and became a reliable veteran for skipper Eric Wedge in a bullpen brimming with youth.
Perez had a good enough season that he’ll surely garner some offseason interest, with the Mariners among the interested clubs. Seattle has exclusive rights to re-sign him before all free agents hit the open market Thursday night. - Josh Liebeskind, MLB.com
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They can have him!
His return would be the ultimate kick in the teeth to all Met fans.
i couldnt care less what he does. Maybe if he had embraced his demotion to the bullpen with a better attitude things would have been different. He can drop dead now for all I care which is essentially what his actions said to the team.
despite hitting below the mendoza for a few months…Ike didnt want to be sent down…are u damning him to hell too ?
funfact: no player wants to be on the bench or in the minors…
when David Wright does his now annual 2nd half dive…he doesnt see the bench…and if he did…he probably wouldnt be happy about it…
does that mean he isnt a team player?
….and we care why?
We’ve gotten rid of the likes of Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan and David Cone and I’m supposed to worry because this schlub is doing OK in Seattle? Even if he turned into the next Mariano Rivera I could care less.
F Him!!! as soon as he signs a new contract, he’ll suk for that team, I hope his arm explodes when he throws a pitch.
NEVER,Ever,Ever AGAIN in a Mets uniform. Please, God!!!
Good for him! So many sour grapes….
I always liked him.Skipping over the third base line was so cool. So many good memories…
I hold no ill will towards Perez or the money but lost all respect for him when he refused to work out his problems in the minors and took up a roster spot.
My favorite Jerry Manual moment was the last day of the 2010 season. Jerry knew that it was his last day in a Met uniform. The miserable season just wouldn’t end. The game went into extra innings. Jerry brought in the sulking Ollie for the first time in weeks. Gave him the ball and hung him out to dry. No one was up in the bullpen. As expected Ollie failed. Ah yes Jerry’s farewell to the Wilpons.
Perez didn’t want to work in relief for the Mets and he refused to go to the minors to work on his mechanics. The only reason this worked for Perez in Seattle is because he knew this would be his last shot. …. In addition, I wonder if Dan Warthen really could have helped him. I doubt it…. Perez might have personified the Minaya Era.
Right…Ollie Perez personified the Omar era…
Not Carlos Beltran…Not Johan Santana…Not RA Dickey….
So if Ollie personifies the Omar era…
does Tim Byrdack personify the Sandy era?
or maybe Taylor Tankersly?
wait….Kelly Shoppach?
Agree with you…..like some of these idiots think Minaya took over the 27 Yankees and messed them up. He took over a last place club and gave this team life. You know who has more misses than Minaya, Brian cashman but he is held on a pedestal. Some of it is racism but more than anything some of these people actually still think money ball works.
Also, has Dan warthen helped anybody??????
Perez spent a year and a half in the minors with two different organizations since being let go by the Mets and the fact of the matter is he worked his way back better than ever.
Bitter Mets fans predicted he’d retire laughing his way to the bank. That’s not what he opted to do. He opted instead to grow up, which is what he didn’t as a Met when refusing to go to the minors on the advice of Scott Boras.
The Mets demonstrated a lack of aptitude in knowing what was needed to restore that velocity and help develop command. A radical change in his pitching mechanics and delivery was clearly needed from Day 1 as a Met, and the Mets failed miserably there.
The Nats, whom he pitched for in the minors – AA, Extended Spring Training in 2011, lacked that aptitude as well.
The Mariners had that aptitude, radically changed his mechanics/delivery and thus reaped the dividends in 2012.
That they opted to sign him to Major League Deal in 2013, makes a statement about Ollie’s comeback, his growing maturity as person to embrace change (bullpen, minors, new mechanics) as well as his loyalty to them. Good for him and them.
I’m on the I don’t care list about Perez. It’s good that he found a niche were he is comfortable but I wouldn’t want him on The Mets. Now Jason Vargas I’m still a little irratated about but that is about it from tha Mariners.
Geez, I read a lot of sour grapes and immaturity, in the posts here about Perez.
Perez had a fine season after spending 2011 in extended spring training and AA in the Washington Nats system.
The Mariners had the good sense to alter his mechanics and with that came the highest fastball MPH average in his career plus good control.
Give credit where credit is due – Mariners staff unlike the Mets nor Nats who lacked the appropriate personnel to help Ollie make the correct changes for him. The Mariners succeeded where both the Mets and Nats failed to recognize what he needed to restore velocity and develop command.
And I give credit to Perez who opted to spend to 2011 in the minors and work his way back in 2012 after spending part of that season in the minors as well.
I’m happy for him.
I agree…..
You know what they say, haters gotta hate. I dont mind it so much on Perez really, but they hate on Minaya, Beltran, Reyes, Pagan too. There were people on this site (not writers) saying I hope Reyes tears his hamstings, or I hope Beltran’s knees blowout. Dont worry he’ll spend the whole year on the DL. They are probably mad that neither Reyes, Pagan or Beltran have spent a day on the DL.
I never thought any Met fan in their right mind would be happy for Oliver Perez. Wow, things are worse than I thought.
Who cares….he still sucks.
I care because he is very good… I don’t think he needed money. It was his pride. I always thought he had that in him.
He was just one of many many horrible Minaya decisions. 36 million!!!! It’s almost as bad as the Jason Bay contract. Or the Santana contract. Or the Luis Castillo contract. Or the Pedro Martinez contract. So many bad contracts, so many second generation contracts to players who got injured or never produced. How unfortunate it has been.
Ollie was the poster boy for throwing cash at problems instead of trying to find a better solution.
Sure, they’ll be players like Dickey, Tatis, And Valentin that Omar was able to find and get on the cheap. However, there has been far too many misses that cost far too much money.
Yeah, Missing on a player who made peanuts for a one month rental(Shoppach), is a lot different then missing on a 36 million dollar contract. I’m actually surprised Omar never gave John Maine and Mike Pelfrey both 50 million dollar extensions.
Lets face it, he did okay with Beltran, but everyone else hasn’t panned out.
I thought he did well will Pedro…
Santana’s contract was bad? Your comments on this site show you for the bandwagon fan that you are. I’d bet anything you were doing the Irish Jig when the Mets got Santana. And you know what, don’t bother saying you didn’t because I’d call you a liar..
Sorry but don’t lump me into a group who has wished for players to get injured.
I’m not a hater. I never said I hate anyone, but Omar got fired for a reason and it was because of those contracts.
Someone had rushed to Omar’s rescue and I was pointing out that there’s a big difference between the two front offices.
The main one is that you can’t pass judgment on the current cause they’ve only been able to slash payroll. The Omar regime had almost unlimited funds and spent poorly on damaged arms.
Hater? Please…the only ones I dislike are the owners for funneling every ounce of revenue other than attendance and using it to pay off debts.
As far as Pedro goes… That was not a good signing in hindsight.
Met maniac: I’m not a lair. You are right I loved the trade, but I liked the Bay signing too but that turned out horrible. Are you saying that what we all think can’t change once we see the results? That’s absurd!!! Nobody knows how any signing is going to play out.
We can guess but that’s all.
I can say now that signing Wright to a 7 ye deal probably is a bad idea, but we won’t know for a few yrs right? Think. Your argument is pretty…stupid. Are you stupid too? You can say you’re not but I’ll call you a lair.
I’m saying people get hurt. People die too. Nobody knows why but it happens. I’m glad you are not a liar, I didn’t think you were. I knew you’d say you liked the deal ar first. All I’m saying is that sometimes real life gets in the way and things happen. We dont need to do an about face and blame the GM for things beyond his control. Lets say we sign Wright to a 5 year $100M deal. He crashes into a railing catching a popup in spring training and fractures three vertebra. He comes back one year later and never bats over .225 again or hits more than 5 homers. Do we call Alderson a scumbag for signing him? That’s my point.
You can change your mind…but to play 20/20 hindsight and bash Omar for doing the same thing u would’ve done is lunacy…
the only move Omar did that was a total head-scratcher was the one he didnt do…which was keep the 2006 bullpen together as much as possible…
if he has bradford and oliver…along with joe smith and heillman, we win the division by 5 games in 2007/2008…
every other move was either one he was forced to do due to lack of options or the right move at the time…
In October 2004…Omar inherited a sheeety Mets team…with a weak minor league system, a weak major league system and terrible owners…
From 2005-2008, the mets won more games than any other NL team..
Madoff scandal hits in Dec 2008
In 2009, there were 15 mets that hit the DL…most in team history…the mets are now in austerity and cant spend too much…
He was canned in 2010
He had 4 good years, 2 bad ones and left Sandy a much better major and minor league team than he inherited…and probably a better one than what Sandy will leave the next guy
I don’t understand the hostility. I can understand feeling let down by Perez and even appreciate that for many of us Perez was the face of the Met descent into where we are now… But being angry with Oliver Perez in my mind is like being angry with a 12 year old, what’s the point?
I remember Pedro Martinez giving an interview at a time when he and Perez were teammates on the Mets and Perez had just begun to consistently stink. Pedro and Perez sat next to each other on a cross country flight, someone asked Pedro after the flight if he and Oliver Perez had talked about pitching, specifically the pitching problems that Oliver Perez had been having? Pedro answered, “He [Perez] had his face in a video game all flight.”
To me this sums up Oliver Perez’s tenure with the Mets perfectly. Imagine you are blessed to have one of the greatest ever in your chosen profession sitting next to you on a long flight during a time when you are having difficulties at work. Would you bury your face in a book?
I don’t see how anyone could feel hostility toward a 12 year old boy.
I will say one thing…
Right now, lets stop and think about who’d we all want for 2013 as the general manager.
I believe Omar would be on the phones, trying to make a deal to get this team some help. I think he’d probably trade anyone to do it. Wheeler, Flores, and anyone else.
Sandy is on the phones too. But I think he’d never trade any top prospect and would rather wait until 2014 when there’s more cash on hand to fix the team.
Obviously Omar’s strategy would make 2013 better but the team because of payroll constraints would probably fizzle out in a couple years.
Alderson’s plan is more risky because the prospects may never pan out, but if they do the team might be better for much longer.
Who’d you rather have?
Honestly, I have to pick Sandy. Only because of the payroll being what it is. The team is going to need the prospects to feed the team. This way the payroll stays low and they can, when needed, use free agency to make the team Better. Of course, this means that 2013 is probably another crap year, but I blame the Wilpons for that, not Alderson.
I also would completely understand picking Omar.
Please, the guy was such absolute garbage to our organization. I would like to ask the MMO simply blacks out any coverage of him that isn’t completely peripheral.
Hey Mariners, good luck with that. lol.