The White Sox announced this afternoon that catcher Carlos Perez has been assigned outright to Triple-A. The 27-year-old was designated for assignment last week to make room for right-hander Chris Flexen on the 40-man roster.
Not to be confused with older brother Carlos Perez, who caught 66 games with the A’s last year in his fifth major league season, the younger Perez signed out of Venezuela with the White Sox back in 2014. Though Perez didn’t reach the upper levels of the minors until the 2021 season, the backstop has held his own with a .245/.306/.428 slash line in 190 career games at the Triple-A level and has spent the past two seasons as catching depth for the White Sox behind Yasmani Grandal and Seby Zavala. Perez made it into 34 games with the big league club since he first joined the roster in 2022, though he slashed an unimpressive .209/.254/.343 in 71 trips to the plate during that time.
The White Sox have completely revamped their catching corps this offseason as both Grandal and Zavala have departed. Youngster Korey Lee joined the club at the trade deadline last year while offseason deals have brought in both Max Stassi and Martin Maldonado. Those moves have left little room for Perez on a fairly crowded White Sox 40-man roster, prompting the club to designate him for assignment. Now that he’s been successfully passed through waivers, the White Sox have chosen to outright him to the minor leagues.
Perez has neither the requisite service time nor a previous outright assignment on his resume to allow him to elect free agency, meaning he’ll remain in the White Sox organization for the 2024 campaign as non-roster depth who could be called upon in the event of an injury or trade thinning out the club’s catching depth at the big league level at some point during the coming season.
Why would parents name two sons the same name? I know George Foreman name his five sons George, but that guy was hit in the head A LOT, so it is understandable.
Yeah, there’s a “this is my other brother Daryl” joke in there somewhere.
White Sox are just making room for their big announcement of the FA signing of catcher:
Yasmani Grandal !!!!!!!
God forbid!
Apparently a common thing in Venezuela, with different middle names distinguishing them.
I want to see the same org bring in both brothers to form the catching corp for their AAA affiliate. You’d always know the name of the catcher!
“Who is catching tonight?”
“Bro, are you serious? Its Carlos Perez, of course!”
“Yeah, but which Carlos Perez?”
The guy is clearly swinging under the ball in the picture.
But his brother, Carlos Perez would have connected…
In completely unrelated news, Yasmani Grandal has announced he’s changing his name to Carlos Perez.
Hilarious
So now that the Sox have Maldonado and Stassi for the MLB team, and traded last year for Korey Lee and Quero, with Hackenberg having had a good year…Carlos Perez is going to do what exactly? I assume they’ll just DFA him in spring training but I really don’t understand what the org is doing with it’s catching depth.
Wasn’t Hackenberg Groucho Marks’ name in “Animal Crackers”? Or was it “A Day At The Races”?
No, wait. It was “Hackenbush”.
Yes, it was A Day at the Races.
I think because Carlos knows the pitching staff and spring training is coming up it made sense to the team to keep him around at least though spring training. You need a bunch of extra catchers anyway.
If Stassi and Lee completely fail in spring training or get hurt he has an outside shot of making the MLB roster.