April 17th: Perez was officially selected back to the roster today.
April 15th: The Braves seem set to bring Martín Pérez right back up to the majors. Manager Walt Weiss told reporters this evening that the veteran southpaw was among the options to start Friday’s series opener against Philadelphia (relayed by Chad Bishop of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Mark Bowman of MLB.com suggests it will indeed be Pérez, who is also listed as the team’s probable starter opposite Taijuan Walker on the MLB website.
Atlanta designated him for assignment on Sunday and ran him through outright waivers. Pérez elected free agency but returned on a minor league contract this morning. That might’ve come with an understanding that he’d be quickly called back up. The transactional sequence allowed the Braves to carry a nine-man bullpen for the intervening few games, though it obviously came with the possibility that another team would claim Pérez off waivers.
Pérez has made three appearances in an Atlanta uniform. He has gotten decent results, allowing just five runs across 14 1/3 innings. The 35-year-old southpaw has only struck out six of the 53 batters he faced with a well below-average 7.2% swinging strike percentage.
Bryce Elder is on the mound for tonight’s series finale against Miami. The Braves are off tomorrow. Pérez’s return allows them to give an extra day of rest to their other starters. It’ll be Chris Sale vs. Cristopher Sánchez in a phenomenal pitching duel on Saturday and Grant Holmes opposite rookie Andrew Painter to round out the weekend divisional set. Atlanta hasn’t listed probable starters for next week’s series against the Nationals but would have Reynaldo López and Elder on schedule for the first two games.
The Braves already have two openings on their 40-man roster. They’d only need to make an active roster move involving a pitcher as a corresponding transaction. Dylan Lee and Hayden Harris are their only pitchers with minor league options. They’ll presumably option Harris out after tonight’s game.
He needs to retire. He is nothing but garbage
Who? Walker?
Walker been Garbage since Arizona
Perez is better than Walker. Better overall career and better career high. Walker is a joke hole for farts.
I think Bido will be the one to be DFA.
We would lose Bido, Harris just goes back down
Do we really “lose” is Bido goes?
He’s awful.
Perez FDAed, then to start Friday? Crazy! Ritchie and Fuentes tossing gems at AAA only being wasted! Let go of these BUMS (Bido, Perez, etc) and promote at least one of these guys! I guess the thinking is Strider will be ready soon, but he is definitely not the same Pitcher he was when they extended him!
A long way around just for Perez to rejoin the rotation
Jose Suarez and Bido have both been “shakey” at best. My opinion leans more to brutal.
I understand a team will never have 8 or 9 bullpen guys that are lights out all time, but you only need 1 mop up guy. Keep 1 of either Jose Suarez or Bido… Then when Strider comes back you get rid of the other one and move Perez to the bullpen to be the mop up guy.
Give Hayden Harris a chance to hold down a spot. See if he could maybe be the guy to replace Bummer.
Bummer.
On another note… Is it just me or is that kind of a ballsey move by AA?
Perez could have easily been scooped up by another one of these teams that has a lot of injuries to their rotation. Houston, SD to just name a couple. AA took a chance DFA Perez and EVERYONE wondered why it wasn’t Suarez at the time. Then Atlanta is able to re-sign Perez and have him setup to not even actually miss a start for the Braves.
It seems like the Braves make moves just to make moves sometimes. What would’ve they done if Perez didn’t clear waivers, bullpen game?…I don’t always understand the 40 man roster vs. available options. But they’ve been at 39/38 for awhile and hasn’t seemed like they absolutely needed to drop someone…I’m sure someone on here can hit me with the facts lol!
Jesse Chavez Perez….
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