According to Adam Rubin, there may be some momentum behind Ollie being out of the rotation. Adam goes on to surmise that Ollie may miss his next schedule start and Hisanori Takahashi may be the replacement.
-This is one of those things where Omar may just have to bite the bullet as the former employer of a current Met found the need to do in Gary Matthews Jr. Much like GMJ, Oliver performed well enough to “convince” the Mets to offer a ridiculous contract. Check this out(thanks to MLB Network), between 07-08, Oliver Perez had 63 starts where he went 25-17 with a 3.91 era and averaged 6.0 innings per start. Since we gave Oliver Perez that 36 million dolla contract, from 09-10 he has had 21 starts with only 3 wins(7 losses) an era of 6.52 and is averaging 4.2 innings a start. The only difference between the Mets and Angels is that the Angels at least did something about it, while we are still burning through our bullpen with his 3.1 inning outings. On the Angels, they stashed GMJ where he couldnt do too much harm to their team but take up a roster spot and making it known he did not like being a part time player(much like what he is here). Like Ronnie said, this guy just does not belong up here. Unless this guy discovers HOW to pitch because you are not going to blow people away at 88 mph, the Mets will be doomed to this kind of stuff from a guy making 12 mil. I always thought the job of an organization is to put the most competitive team out there. If that is truly their job, having Perez out there is NOT it. Theres a saying in baseball “If you dont have velocity, you better have location”…I think Ollie better start embracing that saying if he wants to continue calling himself a starting pitcher.
7 comments
rustyjr
5/15/2010-7:21am at 7:21 am (UTC -4)
yes but for how long? and if he continues to stink up the joint will they put him back on the dl with a phantom injury?
dirtysanchez
5/15/2010-7:30am at 7:30 am (UTC -4)
I would rather see the mets eat most of ollies contract and move him for someone…anybody but that is in my dream world of common sense
rustyjr
5/15/2010-7:39am at 7:39 am (UTC -4)
Yeah it’s a shame – this guy has shown so much potential but he doesn’t deserve to be on a major league roster at this point the only person I can see ” fixing him ” is Duncan
dirtysanchez
5/15/2010-8:01am at 8:01 am (UTC -4)
IF duncan can fix him, just bill him as the best pitching coach of all time
johan4cy
5/15/2010-8:58am at 8:58 am (UTC -4)
What a disappointment… he used to be fantastic some starts, shaky in others. Now he just completely sucks every time he takes the mound.
stickguy
5/15/2010-9:05am at 9:05 am (UTC -4)
right. he used to have the “electric” stuff, and be (usually) effectively wild.
Now, he just has mediocre stuff, and no control, so he either misses (ball 4, take your base), or misses fat (bang, zoom alice!)
metsfan4decades
5/15/2010-9:12am at 9:12 am (UTC -4)
All good points above.
If he truly is healthy then his mechanics have to be the problem. What else would result in the loss of velocity? An arm injury that never fully recovered would do that but Ollie never had that problem.
It’s obvious Ollie can’t fix the problem on his own. He doesn’t know how to make the adjustments for loss of velocity like Johan can and Maine is working on.
You can’t keep trotting him out there every 5th day. It’s not helping anyone, himself included.