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Perez will the a lefty specialist, and get some long relief work apparently.

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terrible

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on May 4, 2009 6:28 PM EDT reply actions

Oh and I like how Cerrone says

…like i said earlier, i believe perez’s issues are confidence and mental, and since i do not know him, nor know how best to treat his ego and psyche, i trust the Mets did what they believe to be the best way to get him through this…

Think your fastball will go faster Ollie! THINK!

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on May 4, 2009 6:32 PM EDT reply actions

Is he having marital problems? Maybe performance issues?

Could be a job for:

by Prince on May 4, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions

hehe Freud

by meigs1414 on May 4, 2009 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Ollie sucked when his fastball was 95 too, though

just not as much as he sucks now. Ollie’s always been a headcase, now he’s a headcase who doesn’t even have good stuff. Way to go, Omar.

by cjmulrain on May 4, 2009 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions

You guys need to relax.

Ollie didn’t suck. His ERA+ with the Mets has been 120 and 100, respectively. His career ERA+ is 93. He’s about a league average pitcher or slightly below. That doesn’t = sucks.

So while I think we can all agree that Omar way overpaid for him, I think it’s a bit unfair to paint Ollie as being worse than he is. Ollie’s main problem is that he isn’t a dude like Trachsel or Redding, where he is consistently mediocre. Ollie arrives at being mediocre by having a string of brilliant starts where he is unhittable, followed by a string of starts where he is lucky if he goes 3 innings.

by SQUAD on May 6, 2009 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Sucks=for a guy making $36 mil.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on May 6, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions

what he said

I liked Ollie a lot when he was the quirky, sometimes dominant throw in from the Nady trade. But, he sucked in 2003, he sucked in ‘05 and ’06, and he was sucky for a good part of last year, though I’ll concede that overall he was an average pitcher.

"This is the beauty of baseball. In basketball, at the end of the game, you want to put the ball in your best scorer's hands. But in baseball, it's up to a rookie like McGlinchy and a journeyman like Franco with the entire season on the line. Baseball history is dotted with names like Al Weis and Brian Doyle, men who have taken their name out of the agate type and placed it into the headlines, because it was simply their time."

by cjmulrain on May 6, 2009 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Ugh, they fuck it up again.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on May 4, 2009 7:13 PM EDT reply actions

Perez will the a lefty specialist, and get some long relief work apparently

He doesn’t throw enough strikes to be a lefty specialist, and he can’t be considered until his velocity returns. He needs to be in AAA, as a starter, to get his shit together. Period. Anything else is foolhardy, IMO.

by zmanmetfan on May 6, 2009 11:54 PM EDT reply actions