Ollie Perez

[webjim25]

4.1IP today Vs the Nats. 7ER 3K's and 3BB's for a 9.31ERA. 12 Million smackers a year. I remember how Rick Ankiel sort of....lost his pitching skills and never got it back. The same has seem to have happened to Ollie, even though he's not throwing pitches to the back stop. He's 100% healthy, what is the problem and is there any chance of Ollie turning this around?

[SweetZombieJesus]

still a better contract than what Dempster got.

[dew1679666265]

He's not that much worse than most of his career.

 

In his best four seasons he had ERA+s of 145, 120, 107 and 100. Besides that his ERA+s have been between 56 and 74.

 

I never realized this, but he pitched in 16 games at 20 years old. He's been in the majors for significant parts of 8 seasons - and he's just 27.

[Mephistopheles]

velos way down iirc

[webjim25]

still a better contract than what Dempster got.

 

Id say there's a big difference in their production levels.

[Mephistopheles]

not really...

[sneakypower]

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/the-book-on-borass-clients/

[Mephistopheles]

Chapter Three is titled: “Perez Is One of Baseball’s Top 5 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers.” It puts Perez in a grouping with C.C. Sabathia, Cole Hamels, Ted Lilly and Johan Santana, who was Perez’s teammate on the Mets in 2007.

 

I heard that Scott Kazmir guy down in Tampa is pretty good, Scott. I'm not sure if you have. Oh wait, he's your client and I'm pretty sure when you negotiated Kazmir's latest contract the binder had a chapter: "Kazmir Is One of Baseball’s Top 5 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers." Only, this time around you didn't have Perez listed, but Kazmir instead.

 

Oh wait, you didn't negotiate Kazmir's latest contract. He fired your ass.

[webjim25]

For what it's worth, I believe Ollie is one of the pitchers who's been blaming his early-season struggles on pitching in the WBC. He pitched for Team Mexico, but I don't have the numbers on IP for him.

 

There's been some speculation in New York that a lot of the problems are just mechanics. Paul Lo Duca was on a sports show out here, speaking from experience as he caught Perez when he was still in New York. Lo Duca proposed that Perez's herky-jerky delivery is basically a recipe for disaster when it comes to control because he'll struggle with release points and arm slots, and when he starts thinking about that stuff too much on the mound he tends to lose his precision.

 

The New York media is actually floating the idea out there that the Mets should yank him from the starting rotation and put him in the bullpen, but that'd probably go even worse. He'd be almost Turnbow-like in that role...they're probably better off seeing if they can send him down to AAA for awhile to work out his mechanics, even if he signed a $30 million deal.

[Eric Clipperton]

Chapter Three is titled: “Perez Is One of Baseball’s Top 5 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers.” It puts Perez in a grouping with C.C. Sabathia, Cole Hamels, Ted Lilly and Johan Santana, who was Perez’s teammate on the Mets in 2007.

 

I heard that Scott Kazmir guy down in Tampa is pretty good, Scott. I'm not sure if you have. Oh wait, he's your client and I'm pretty sure when you negotiated Kazmir's latest contract the binder had a chapter: "Kazmir Is One of Baseball’s Top 5 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers." Only, this time around you didn't have Perez listed, but Kazmir instead.

 

Oh wait, you didn't negotiate Kazmir's latest contract. He fired your ass.

 

I love how Ted Lilly somehow made it into this "top 5 lefties" ranking by Boras.