The Indians announced this afternoon they’ve selected the contract of left-hander Francisco Pérez. First baseman Bobby Bradley is landing on the 10-day injured list after missing the club’s past few games with a left knee injury. Cleveland already had two vacancies on the 40-man roster, so no additional move was needed in that regard.
Pérez is in line to make his big league debut after spending seven years in the minors. He signed as an amateur free agent out of the Dominican Republic during the 2014-15 international signing period and has spent his entire career in the Indians organization. Pérez began his career as a starting pitcher but has worked exclusively out of the bullpen this season.
While Pérez has never appeared on an organizational top prospects list at Baseball America or FanGraphs, he’s been nothing short of dominant in the high minors this year. The 24-year-old has worked 45 1/3 innings of 1.19 ERA ball split between Double-A Akron and Triple-A Columbus. Along the way, Pérez has punched out a whopping 40% of batters faced, although he has walked an elevated 11.7% of opponents. That’s a new development for Pérez, who had posted average or better walk rates at every level until this season.
interesting arm here for CLE. lets see what he can do.
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Congrats on his perseverance, Cleveland can always use a lefty.
A 9-2 lead tonight was the best opportunity to get him out on the bump.
He’d be in the game if they were down 9-2. Kinda curious to see what they have in Perez.
Brilliant! This idiot manager brings him into the game with the bases loaded. SMH. Way to ruin his psyche right out the gate genius. Same idiot took a scorching hot Ramos and sat him for Austin No hit Hedges.
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I try to follow the Tribe minor league players closely, but this guy slipped right past me. It’ll be nice to have a lefty in the pen again.
He was a starter with Lake County in 2018, after getting through Mahoning Valley, AZL and DSL the previous 3 seasons. He did fairly well, with his peripherals out performing his surface stats, as a 20 year old that year. Which is young for the lowest circuit. His performance was good enough to get on some prospect lists. He got hurt prior to 2019, spent it rehabbing in AZL and MV, then obviously 2020 was a lost year as well. So he fell off the prospect map as a result.