{"id":438,"date":"2012-11-04T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-11-04T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T13:58:26","slug":"mariners-re-sign-oliver-perez-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/11\/04\/mariners-re-sign-oliver-perez-to-one-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners re-sign Oliver Perez to one year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.pictures.zimbio.com\/gi\/Oliver+Perez+Seattle+Mariners+v+New+York+Yankees+S1lpivRXihrl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Seattle Mariners will bring back relief pitcher Oliver Perez for the 2013 season. The left hander and the team have agreed on a one year deal worth $1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Perez worked out of the Mariners bullpen exclusively. The 31-year-old should operate in a similar capacity next season. In his first season with the Mariners Perez had a 2.12 ERA, 1.25 WHIP. In 29 2\/3 innings of work Perez had a 24\/10 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n<p>How close will Perez be to these numbers in 2013 is anyone&#8217;s guess. Control is always a concern with Perez. He walked only three batters per nine innings last season but those expecting big things should be cautious. It was only the second time in Perez&#8217;s ten year major league career that he had a BB\/9 under four.<\/p>\n<p>Should Perez post similar numbers next season the Mariners may opt to trade him prior to the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners will bring back relief pitcher Oliver Perez for the 2013 season. The left hander and the team have agreed on a one year deal worth $1.5 million. Last season Perez worked out of the Mariners bullpen exclusively. The 31-year-old should operate in a similar capacity next season. In his first season with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[73],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-oliver-perez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}