Just wondering if anyone can give me info on the San Diego starter for todays game?? I see his name is Perez but I have not heard of him before?? Any help is appreciated.
San Diego starter
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Padres purchased the contract of LHP Oliver Perez from Double-A Mobile. Perez, 20, has been outstanding this year, Perez had a 1.85 ERA in Single-A before joining Mobile last month. He had a 1.17 ERA in four starts for the club, striking out 34 in 23 innings. However, he also walked 16 batters, which is a pretty good indication that he's not ready for the majors
Padre fan forum on Perez
Padre fan forum on Perez
going into the season, tpalert had him rated 8th in padres prospect list...and had this to say about him......
looks like they might be calling him up a bit early.
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8) Oliver Perez, LHS, 20yo (0.2, 1.0, -0.2)
One of baseball?s better kept secrets, Perez had a very good year for a player of his age in his first year of full-season ball. He throws a 90+ fastball and has a good change and curve, striking out more than a batter per inning. Isn?t dominating, and still has control problems at times, but is poised for a breakout season next year. By late 2003 could be battling for an ?end of the rotation? spot.
looks like they might be calling him up a bit early.
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8) Oliver Perez, LHS, 20yo (0.2, 1.0, -0.2)
One of baseball?s better kept secrets, Perez had a very good year for a player of his age in his first year of full-season ball. He throws a 90+ fastball and has a good change and curve, striking out more than a batter per inning. Isn?t dominating, and still has control problems at times, but is poised for a breakout season next year. By late 2003 could be battling for an ?end of the rotation? spot.
baseballprospectus comments on his callup at the time of the transactions of the Padres:
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Optioned RHPs Jeremy Fikac and Dennis Tankersley to Mobile (Double-A); purchased the contracts of RHP J.J. Trujillo and LHP Oliver Perez from Mobile and 1B-L Kevin Barker from Portland. [6/11]
Pity the Padres, as they're about to face the Marines, Red Sox, and Yankees, and they're trying to fix their rotation, their bullpen, and their lineup all at the same time. On some level, at least they're still trying.
Dennis Tankersley's bewildering and uncharacteristic wildness is being chalked up as an extreme case of the jitters, but it's a major organizational setback. It, in turn, has gotten Oliver Perez to the majors considerably earlier than anyone expected. Perez is a 20-year-old Mexican stringbean with a great curve and good heat, but the emphasis should be on the fact that he's just 20. He has four starts above A ball under his belt, but his overall numbers are extremely impressive: a 1.63 ERA, 47 hits (and 40 walks) in 71 2/3 innings, and a hundred strikeouts. He's allowed just one homer un all year. The Padres are generally the sort of organization that's aware of the risks, but bringing him up to feed him to the Mariners this weekend seems desperate.
In the bullpen, J.J. Trujillo is one of those guys I can't help but like. He's a submariner who generally does a good job of keeping the ball on the ground, and while I don't like him as much as I do Kelly Wunsch or Chad Bradford, it can't hurt to take a peek. He had allowed only 37 baserunners in 39 innings as Mobile's closer, with 48 strikeouts, two runs allowed, and a lone tater. Jeremy Fikac probably didn't deserve a demotion considering the relative patience the Pads had with Jason Boyd, but his big boomtastic fly-ball tendencies had moved from annoying to debilitating.
The last call-up is the one I probably like the most, because it shows a sense of responsibility about the future. Having made the decision to move Ryan Klesko back to the outfield this spring, the Pads should stick with that decision out of fairness to Klesko, to see if that's really in the cards for their shared future together. The question is who to stick at first base in Phil Nevin's absence. You could do worse than resurrecting Kevin Barker, the Brewers' Opening Day first baseman back in 2000. Although he was hitting just .257/.343/.385 for the Beavers, he was doing all of his admittedly minor damage off of right-handed pitching, and it wasn't that long ago?OK, it was 1999?that he was slugging .500 against righties.
The point is this: the Padres are desperate, but they may as well have the pieces they wanted in place for their future in those places. Klesko should be in the outfield to see if he's going to cut it as an outfielder, and if by some happy accident Barker turns into the new Lee Stevens during the next few weeks, that's gravy.
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Optioned RHPs Jeremy Fikac and Dennis Tankersley to Mobile (Double-A); purchased the contracts of RHP J.J. Trujillo and LHP Oliver Perez from Mobile and 1B-L Kevin Barker from Portland. [6/11]
Pity the Padres, as they're about to face the Marines, Red Sox, and Yankees, and they're trying to fix their rotation, their bullpen, and their lineup all at the same time. On some level, at least they're still trying.
Dennis Tankersley's bewildering and uncharacteristic wildness is being chalked up as an extreme case of the jitters, but it's a major organizational setback. It, in turn, has gotten Oliver Perez to the majors considerably earlier than anyone expected. Perez is a 20-year-old Mexican stringbean with a great curve and good heat, but the emphasis should be on the fact that he's just 20. He has four starts above A ball under his belt, but his overall numbers are extremely impressive: a 1.63 ERA, 47 hits (and 40 walks) in 71 2/3 innings, and a hundred strikeouts. He's allowed just one homer un all year. The Padres are generally the sort of organization that's aware of the risks, but bringing him up to feed him to the Mariners this weekend seems desperate.
In the bullpen, J.J. Trujillo is one of those guys I can't help but like. He's a submariner who generally does a good job of keeping the ball on the ground, and while I don't like him as much as I do Kelly Wunsch or Chad Bradford, it can't hurt to take a peek. He had allowed only 37 baserunners in 39 innings as Mobile's closer, with 48 strikeouts, two runs allowed, and a lone tater. Jeremy Fikac probably didn't deserve a demotion considering the relative patience the Pads had with Jason Boyd, but his big boomtastic fly-ball tendencies had moved from annoying to debilitating.
The last call-up is the one I probably like the most, because it shows a sense of responsibility about the future. Having made the decision to move Ryan Klesko back to the outfield this spring, the Pads should stick with that decision out of fairness to Klesko, to see if that's really in the cards for their shared future together. The question is who to stick at first base in Phil Nevin's absence. You could do worse than resurrecting Kevin Barker, the Brewers' Opening Day first baseman back in 2000. Although he was hitting just .257/.343/.385 for the Beavers, he was doing all of his admittedly minor damage off of right-handed pitching, and it wasn't that long ago?OK, it was 1999?that he was slugging .500 against righties.
The point is this: the Padres are desperate, but they may as well have the pieces they wanted in place for their future in those places. Klesko should be in the outfield to see if he's going to cut it as an outfielder, and if by some happy accident Barker turns into the new Lee Stevens during the next few weeks, that's gravy.
not sure it bodes well for a rookie pitcher with control problems drawing chuck meriwether to call his major league debut. as we all know, meriwether is calling one of the smallest stike zones in the bigs this year - 9.1 bb/g, 1.23 bb/k ratio, 59.9% called strikes, 11.31 rpg.
