{"id":11879,"date":"2019-12-13T23:43:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11879"},"modified":"2019-12-13T23:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T04:43:55","slug":"still-trying-to-make-heads-or-tails-out-of-martin-perez-getting-6-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/12\/13\/still-trying-to-make-heads-or-tails-out-of-martin-perez-getting-6-million-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Still trying to make heads or tails out of Martin Perez getting $6 million deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11880\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-696x392.jpg 696w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-1068x601.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez-747x420.jpg 747w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/12\/martinperez.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In what surely had to surprise many, Martin Perez was given a contract by the Red Sox for $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>A left hander, some believe this is the reason, Perez had a 5.12 ERA last season for the Twins and was coming off an even more disastrous 2018 where he had a 6.22 ERA for the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Perez figures to be the fifth starter for the Red Sox behind Chris Sale, David Price, Eduardo Rodriguez and Nathan Eovaldi.<\/p>\n<p>The asset that keeps getting touted about Perez has been his durability as he has made 32 starts in three of the last four seasons while topping 165 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Of course that asset fails to consider he has not even been a league average pitcher the last two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>It would hardly be a surprise to see the Red Sox replace Perez in the rotation at the first hint of trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what surely had to surprise many, Martin Perez was given a contract by the Red Sox for $6 million. A left hander, some believe this is the reason, Perez had a 5.12 ERA last season for the Twins and was coming off an even more disastrous 2018 where he had a 6.22 ERA for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[27,513,134],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-11879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-boston-red-sox","9":"tag-martin-perez","10":"tag-minnesota-twins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11879\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}