Martín Pérez

I mean, I, I don't think it's necessary for every rotation to have a left-handed starter.

That's kind of how the pirates operated prior to this season is, you know, going out and getting, you know, a veteran left-hander, you know, Andrew Heaney was the guy in 2024, uh, And 2025, I should actually say, Marco Gonzalez and Martin Perez were picked up as free agents.

Well, Perez was and Gonzalez was actually traded for.

heading into the 2024 season.

I mean, I, I don't think it's necessary for every rotation to have a left-handed starter.

That's kind of how the pirates operated prior to this season is, you know, going out and getting, you know, a veteran left-hander, you know, Andrew Heaney was the guy in 2024 and, And 2025, I should actually say, Marco Gonzalez and Martin Perez were picked up as free agents.

Well, Perez was and Gonzalez was actually traded for.

heading into the 2024 season.

He had a couple of solid starts for me.

Martin Perez, I was getting pretty ugly.

I was using him.

That's never a good sign, but he got me through a couple of tough weeks.

All right, a few more here.

Let's go to number 56, Martin Perez, the elderly one.

There must be something in the water in Atlanta.

35-year-old season, somehow made 26 starts, 30 total outings, 142 innings, the most he's thrown kind of close to 2023, but since 2022.

No, no,

uh-uh.

Really surprising stuff from Martin Perez.

Like I said, the whip and the strikeouts were not ideal, but the ERA was awesome.

And I can see the Braves just bringing back Dubon, bringing back Kim, and kind of just trying to piece it together at shortstop for one more year, hoping that one of the prospects breaks through.

Brent Watanabe says, is Martin Perez expected to be back next year or will he be too expensive? So I don't think he'll be too expensive.

I do think he'll get a major league deal this time around.

He got a minor league deal last year from the Braves.

I don't think he gets any more than 5 million.

Again, I could see the Braves looking to run it back with him.

You can't bring all of these guys back, right? But would I be shocked if they brought back Dubon and Malley and Iggy and Kim and Martin Perez? No, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

They, you know, except for, except for Kim, they all had success here this past season.

So he was outperforming what he probably should have gotten.

And the Braves are familiar with that, right? That's the same thing that Martin Perez did.

That's the same thing.

Everybody in Atlanta's rotation was outperforming their expected ERAs.

And I think you saw this season that you had Sale.

You went out and got Tyler Malley.

But nobody else on staff, even had they been healthy, did you feel comfortable asking them to start in October? The Braves ran three consecutive bullpen games because they didn't have Martin Perez, they didn't have Bryce Elder, and they didn't feel like trusting Grant Holmes with a start.

So these guys that don't check any of the boxes or maybe check one of the boxes, that's the risk.