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. A fun flashback to Profesor Reyes, circa 2007, with guest appearance by Oliver Perez....

Adam Rubin Zack Wheeler was dispatched to minor league camp Sunday, on the day he faced batters after an oblique injury. PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. FIRST PITCH: The Mets make their second 2.5-hour drive to Lakeland, Fla., in four days. This time, they ...

Justin Verlander, Prince Fielder, Clayton Kershaw and Mike Trout aren't on the United States roster, and their absence means a lot of fans don't care about the World Baseball Classic -- certainly not enough to spend a Friday evening in early March wa...

Another list of one-hit wonders: Guys who had one big season. Here's the American League East, AL Central, AL West and National League East. Chicago Cubs I didn't search for long before finding this season: Rick Wilkins in 1993. A third-year catc...

Oliver Perez is staying with the Seattle Mariners, giving them a left-handed specialist out of the bullpen next season.

Taking a look through the lens of advanced metrics, Dave Cameron eyes a handful of trade targets that could provide good return at low cost as the deadline approaches.

Story | Conversation | July 27, 2012

Oliver Perez has been promoted to the major leagues by the Seattle Mariners. It marks the southpaw's first time at the level since being released by the Mets during spring training in 2011 with $12 million still remaining on his contract for that sea...

Left-handed reliever Oliver Perez has been selected by the Seattle Mariners while right-handed reliever Steve Delabar was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma.

With pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training in a little less than a month, teams are making their final roster adjustments. It's been a long offseason, one during which some industry-changing deals were made. However, in the wake of those...

Blog | January 24, 2012

The Seattle Mariners have signed left-handed pitcher Oliver Perez to a minor league contract with an invite to major league spring training.

The stakes have risen in the Dominican League's semi-final round-robin tournament between the Aguilas Cibaenas, Escogido Leones, Licey Tigres and Cibao Gigantes. Several veteran major leaguers have entered the fray, led by Miguel Tejada, who hit two ...

During Hot Stove season, the majority of attention goes to the major league free agents, of course. But every winter, attention goes to that less-heralded crop of talent dumped into the "free talent" pool, available to the highest bidder: minor-leagu...

Scott Kazmir #19 SP Los Angeles Angels 2011 STATS GM1 W0 L0 BB2 K0 ERA27.00 Mark Saxon of ESPNLosAngeles.com writes that Scott Kazmir has been released by the Angels, who will eat $14.5 million. Like with Oliver Perez, any team picking u...

Fourteen of the 21 first-round picks out of college programs in the 2008 draft have now appeared in the major leagues, including Buster Posey (fifth overall), Gordon Beckham (eighth), Brett Wallace (13th), Ike Davis (18th) and Daniel Schlereth (26th)...

Oliver Perez, who is being paid $12 million by the Mets this season, is due to face their Double-A club on Thursday in a 10:35 a.m. start. Perez is pitching for Harrisburg, an affiliate of the Washington Nationals. He is 2-1 with a 1.89 ERA in fou...

Here are the top five reasons -- and there are like 324 reasons in all -- why you should listen to Tuesday's Baseball Today podcast with myself and Mark Simon! 1. ESPN contributor and former GM Jim Bowden makes his Baseball Today debut, discussin...