R Perez avoids arbitration

Well, thank goodness! Via IndiansInsider Twitter.

Update: Castro says 795K.

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High five?

-Erik

by drerikbrady on Jan 19, 2010 3:29 PM EST reply actions

OK.

Pretty meaningless I’d say. I doubt they were all that far apart.

As for Perez, I have no idea what mechanical tweak could have caused such a difference between amazing and awful. I just want 2008 Raffy back.

by dgcambridge on Jan 19, 2010 3:54 PM EST up reply actions

Who doesn’t. If the 2008 version were re-upping, that would be very exciting.

-Erik

by drerikbrady on Jan 19, 2010 5:33 PM EST up reply actions

Remember some fans toyed with the idea of Raffy Perez becoming a starter? Ho ho ho.

by Toxicadam on Jan 19, 2010 4:25 PM EST reply actions

I’m waiting until Spring Training to see if that’s an actuality or was just speculation. I’m getting more apprehensive about this rotation. I imagine the front office is pretty unsure as well, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they kick the tires of Raffy as a starter in ST to potentially help stop the bleeding if the current crapshoot doesn’t pan out by June.

No, not you. Your helmet!

by PatBordersHelmet on Jan 19, 2010 4:59 PM EST up reply actions

he is not starting. too lazy to look, but i think castrovince debunked this by way of someone with the indians. if nothing else for the work load, i believe.

by Brick. on Jan 19, 2010 6:22 PM EST up reply actions

wasn’t it Shapiro himself who said that stretching Perez’ innings would take too long and would be too much of a risk?

by JP_Frost on Jan 19, 2010 7:38 PM EST up reply actions

I hope you’re correct. Eighth inning set-up guys don’t exactly grow on trees.

No, not you. Your helmet!

by PatBordersHelmet on Jan 19, 2010 11:26 PM EST up reply actions

For 850K, how bad of a starter could he be? He couldn’t be much worse than he was as a reliever last season.

by Jay on Jan 19, 2010 5:40 PM EST up reply actions

Except his number of innings pitched would remain the same regardless.

I just wanted to believe.

by mjmarble on Jan 19, 2010 5:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Heyo!

"You are an LGT success story" -- Jay

by Turkmenbashi on Jan 19, 2010 11:50 PM EST up reply actions

But by starting him, we would move last season’s patented eighth inning meltdown to the first inning … giving the team a lot more time to make up the deficit.

by Harry Doyle on Jan 20, 2010 11:08 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs

Huntington always though he should’ve stayed a starter…

I need a new avatar...

by stuart dean on Jan 20, 2010 1:31 PM EST up reply actions

Wonder what Pittsburgh would give us for him?

"Nobody ever thinks, 'Hey, maybe I’m actually an idiot.'" - Jay

by woodsmeister on Jan 20, 2010 4:54 PM EST up reply actions

Free Neil Huntington!

by Harry Doyle on Jan 20, 2010 5:35 PM EST up reply actions

Brian Bixler.

by odradek on Jan 20, 2010 8:04 PM EST up reply actions

And to a lesser extent

-Erik

by drerikbrady on Jan 20, 2010 9:53 PM EST up reply actions

the NL west.

by Voltaire on Jan 20, 2010 10:43 PM EST up reply actions

Well played.

by Brad D on Jan 20, 2010 10:51 PM EST up reply actions

Hey, Hoynsie: I’ve read about Rafael Perez’s good winter as a starting pitcher and that he does better given time to get out of jams. Now couple that with the Tribe’s desperate need of effective starters, and you get Rafael Perez in the bullpen again? Why not give him a shot as a starting pitcher? — Alan Tracey, San Jose, Calif.

Hey, Alan: Pitching coach Tim Belcher is intrigued by the idea of using Perez as a starter, but only in an emergency. He doesn’t think it would be fair to ask him to throw between 180 and 200 innings this year.

But I wouldn’t be surprised if the subject is revisited sometime during the upcoming season in preparation for 2011.

This is from Hoynes today (that’s right, Paul Hoynes, you know the man).

So Raffy Perez spot starts?,

by hans on Jan 24, 2010 1:09 PM EST reply actions