Email a copy of 'Jack Of All Trades: Oliver Perez' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Jack Of All Trades: Oliver Perez' to a friend
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johnsilver
No offense Mets fans, but won’t it be nice when you get rid of your own version of Julio Liugo and everyone gets off of your backs over him? It’s like.. Just get it over with.. This guy is as of much use as Lugo was.. He ain’t going to help the Mets, or anyone else.. Cut him already and let him go vamoosh back to wherever the heck he came from.
adropofvenom
Pretty sure every Mets fan has been calling for that for over a year now…..difference is, it’s finally probably actually going to happen in 2 weeks.
icedrake523
How is that offensive to Met fans? I don’t think any of us want Perez on the team.
johnsilver
That was the point and how many of us have brought it up here the last 2 years..Myself included.. Just like how many folks brought up the Lugo signing like a horse collar around Epstein’s neck for a couple of years until Epstein ditched him for that nobody Duncan kid, then released him.
Sometimes it’s just better to cut your losses and be done with it.
thegrayrace
Did anyone (outside of the Mets front office) not realize what a terrible signing that was at the time?
JohnKruksWaistline
Tim posted reactions a few days ago. mlbtraderumors.com/2011/03/what-they-said-when-the…
stl_cards16
Tim posted just last week some reactions from the baseball world at the time of that signing. Most approved of it at the time.
EvanMK
You should probably note that you’re using rWAR, not fWAR.
Infield Fly
“Jack of all trades?” More like “jack of all asses.”
Ollie is inconsiderate…clueless…and just useless.
chicothekid
I was wondering about the “jack of all trades” thing myself. That implies that he can do a little bit of everything, when it’s actually just the opposite. He sucks at quite a few things, and isn’t very good at anything.
can’t hit, can’t bunt, can’t field, can’t start, can’t relieve, can’t even get demoted to the minors. Besides taking a paycheck and whining about it, we really haven’t figured out what he CAN do.
zack
it just means he’s been in involved in interesting trades
Tom
He’s pretty good at lounging in the bullpen too.
Andy Woodley
Keep in mind that the Pirates went on to trade Nady (whom they received for Perez) to the Yankees for three players including promising starting OF Jose Tabata.
riker2
Actually, four players, although (Tabata, Ohlendorf, Karstens, and D. McCutchen) for Nady and Marte.
juice587
Coming from a Phillies fan you have to put this in perspective. At the time of the signing he was coming off a pretty consistent 2 year period, one in which he completely dominated the Phillies, who had just won the World Series. His numbers against Philly were downright nasty in ’08. He pitched 26 innings against them, giving up only ONE run with only 11 BB’s and 27 K’s. His ERA was 0.35 with a 1.08 WHIP and a BAA of .181 vs. the predominantly left-handed hitting Phils lineup. Knowing that they could set him up with 5 or 6 starts against the Phillies the next season, you can’t really blame them, considering the importance of division games. That combined with the fact that everyone was overpaying for starting pitching at that time.
TheHotCorner 2
And to think at one point Boras compared Perez to Sandy Koufax.
stratomaticfan
I almost threw up in my mouth when I read that. Perez compared to Koufax.
hoagiebuchanan
More like jerk of all trades
Chrisn313 2
Greatly entertaining article. Funny that he matched his WAR in the negatives…
run
i never thought the contract was terrible. at the time i begged for perez over lowe or wolf. maybe in retrospect i would sign wolf over perez but not lowe over perez.
i lost it for him last season when he forced us to play with a 24 man roster because he refused going to AAA.