Melido Perez  
Starting Pitcher | Retired or Inactive Players

Pitching
Now he's the consumate ground-ball pitcher, which I love: ground balls never leave the stadium. Perez performs extremely well in the late innings, but unfortunately his endurance prevents him from getting there very often. Perez also has a decent changeup. The Retired or Inactive Players hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He can hit 90 MPH but is too smart to try to get his fastball past most hitters. He traditionally fares better against lefties.

Defense & Hitting
Perez does an average job of holding runners. He isn't especially quick off the mound but generally fields his position adequately. Perez is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Perez has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Retired or Inactive Players have been known to use Perez as a pinch-runner on occasion.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
1998 ATL 94 81 55 70 64 55 57 56 58 60 55 71 66 0 0 0 30 11 Overhand Active 0 6 23 55 372
1999 ATL 92 81 60 71 64 55 57 56 58 60 55 77 66 0 0 0 31 12 Overhand Active 0 0 0 55 379
2000 ATL 92 82 63 74 64 55 57 56 58 60 55 77 66 0 0 0 32 13 Overhand Active 0 0 0 58 386
2001 ANA 93 82 68 57 64 55 57 56 58 75 47 77 66 0 0 0 33 14 Overhand Active 0 0 0 43 384
2002 ANA 93 82 70 37 64 55 57 56 58 75 35 77 77 0 0 0 34 15 Overhand Active 0 0 0 27 363
2003 ANA 93 82 70 27 64 55 57 56 58 79 17 77 79 0 0 0 35 16 Overhand Active 0 0 0 10 339
2004 ANA 93 81 70 16 64 55 57 56 58 79 17 73 81 0 0 0 36 17 Overhand Active 0 0 0 0 325
Ratings Delta     -1   -11               -4 +2       +1 +1           -10 -14
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Sun Nov 14 13:28:08 EST 2004

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.