{"id":15745,"date":"2014-03-10T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diamondbacks-sign-oliver-perez\/"},"modified":"2014-03-10T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:39:00","slug":"diamondbacks-sign-oliver-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/diamondbacks-sign-oliver-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks sign Oliver Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottsdale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Seeking a lefty specialist to bolster their bullpen, the Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to terms with veteran Oliver Perez on a two-year contract Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, a 15-game winner as a starter with the New York Mets in 2007, was out of the majors four years later before rescuing his career as a reliever with Seattle the past two seasons. In 94 games with the Mariners, the 32-year-old posted a 3.16 earned run average while striking out 98 batters in 82 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexico native went 3-3 with two saves and a 3.74 ERA in 61 appearances last season, while limiting left-handed hitters to a .238 average.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, who broke into the majors as a 20-year-old with San Diego in 2002, owns a 62-75 record with a 4.53 ERA over 300 career games (195 starts) with the Padres, Pittsburgh, the Mets and Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottsdale, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Seeking a lefty specialist to bolster their bullpen, the Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to terms with veteran Oliver Perez on a two-year contract Monday. Perez, a 15-game winner as a starter with the New York Mets in 2007, was out of the majors four years later before rescuing his career as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,34,36],"class_list":["post-15745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-arizona","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-diamondbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}