Perez was suspended for AMPHETAMINE use, not steroids. It’s amazing how often I’m seeing players that were suspended for amphetamines being referred to as roiders.
I was hoping you were going to come around to Jeff Francoeur somewhere because that’s what this reminds me of. He cost the Braves $7 million in 2008 just by being on the field in the place of a league minimum player. And people still want to give this guy another shot?? Since Perez in 2002, his season is the worst with the exception of an aging Bernie Williams in 2005.
Erik Hahmann says:
December 26, 2008 at 10:27 am
Joe Posnanski has expounded many thousands of words of the futility of Perez in a Royal uniform. It’s pretty sad.
Bill B. says:
December 26, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I saw the title in my RSS feed, and I was thinking, “Why would FanGraphs write about the Detroit Lions?”
MPC says:
December 26, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Boy, steroids sure do make you better at baseball, don’t they?
Erik says:
December 26, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Perez was suspended for AMPHETAMINE use, not steroids. It’s amazing how often I’m seeing players that were suspended for amphetamines being referred to as roiders.
Zach says:
December 26, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I was hoping you were going to come around to Jeff Francoeur somewhere because that’s what this reminds me of. He cost the Braves $7 million in 2008 just by being on the field in the place of a league minimum player. And people still want to give this guy another shot?? Since Perez in 2002, his season is the worst with the exception of an aging Bernie Williams in 2005.
Ray says:
December 26, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Among qualified players, yes. If you widen the search to “All Players” you’ll find a few who were worse.
drew says:
December 27, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Lets not forget the good deals the Royals made this last season like the signing of Jose Guillen. It looks like thats going to work out great.
kg says:
December 29, 2008 at 11:49 am
How about Andruw Jones, circa 2008 (.505 OPS in ~240 PA)
Value Wins: -0.4
Dollars: -1.6M
Salary: 14.7M
so, he was worth 16.3 million less than what he was paid???
Evan says:
December 29, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Geez, Dave, you’re going to make Rany Jazayerli shoot himself.
Greg says:
April 25, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Perez’s profile now says that he was -3.1 wins in 2002, as opposed to -3.5. What happened?
Greg says:
April 26, 2009 at 12:33 am
Ah, of course! Double plays! Just found where they were added to Fangraphs’ UZR. And so .4 wins of Perez’s historical reputation was salvaged.
Joe R says:
September 22, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Maybe now the Reds will sign him so Dusty Baker can hit him in the 2 hole.