Reading Oliver Perez‘s quotes after his awful performance in spring training today, in which he went 2 innings giving up 4 runs on 4 hits and 3 walks (although he did strikeout 3), had be cracking up. I don’t see how he can be taking his job serious when he says things like this.
“I think the second inning, they took more pitches, and I think most of the pitches were around the home plate,” said Perez. “But when it was a real good pitch with two strikes, they took it. And that’s why I walked those three guys. … They took really goods [at-bats], and sometimes you have to tip your hat.”
“Because in the past week, we’ve been working hard, and I think everybody is kind of tired a little bit, because it was very sunny,” he said.
Really? You are blaming it on the sun and being a little tired. This was a 2 inning stint not a 6+ inning start. I’m sure it was the sun’s fault you got smacked around and not the blazing 84 mph fastball you were sporting. Even Jamie Moyer was laughing at Ollie’s velo today. It was also a good idea to tip your hat to the amazing talents of Alex Gonzalez, David Ross, and Joe Mather who were walked back-to-back-to-back in the 4th inning for taking pitches. Going out on a hunch and saying they didn’t swing the bats because you have worse control than the pitchers in the Little league World Series. He better not be on the roster opening day or I will scream.
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