Perez has had a nightmare season in Los Angeles. He’s 4-4 with a 6.83 ERA in 20 games. He’s only started eight times. He lost his spot in the rotation and he hasn’t been happy about it—at one point he said that the Dodgers “treated like trash.” If you can overlook his problems this season, you’ll see that he’s been a solid starter for his entire career. He’s started 112 games for the Dodgers and he was 41-36. For his career, he’s 56-55 with a 4.24 ERA. And I love his career strike out to walk ratio (2.6 to 1). He’s walked 265 guys and struck out 689.The size of his contract is the drawback in this deal. He’s in the second year of a three-year $24 million contract. I know that we have money to spare, and that we need to sure up our rotation, but taking on that much salary for a guy who doesn’t appear to be afraid to air his disputes with team management publicly, concerns me. If Odalis didn’t like his changing role with the Dodgers, imagine how he might feel if he gets yanked in and out of the rotation like we’ve done with guys over the past few seasons. But we’ve got new leadership now, so let’s assume that the days of second-guessing players’ roles is over—at least until we see otherwise.
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