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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
I was about to post this story about the Rockies bringing Neifi Perez back, with a note saying “HOW COULD NOBODY HAVE MENTIONED THIS YET?”.
Then I noticed that the same news site had a brand new story specifically retracting the old one and making it absolutely clear that the Rockies are aware that Perez really needs the money, or something like that, and that signing him would be “throwing him a lifeline” to a player who is popular in the clubhouse and the organization, and still they have thought it over very carefully and decided they have no interest in him.
What a way for a career to end, if it comes to that…but I think he’ll catch on somewhere.
Perez and the Rockies had agreed to a $750,000 minor league contract on Tuesday, a goodwill gesture that manager Clint Hurdle called a lifeline for one of the more popular players in club history who has hit hard times of late.
But the team later had second thoughts and decided against bringing him back.
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The first player suspended by baseball for stimulants since they were banned before the 2006 season, Perez has 18 games remaining on an 80-game suspension he received last season after testing positive for a third time.
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1. Xander Posted: February 27, 2008 at 08:32 PM (#2701302)And he did it as arguably the worst hitter in the big leagues.
If that's it, could I please have $20M and be banned from my career; make it a lifetime ban. Using "hard times" for that is a sick joke.
Hell, if Greg LaRocca can be a star there, anything can happen.
Bowa, Belanger, Roy McMillan (2093/72), and Don Kessinger (2078/73) are the only four players in ML history to have played over 2000 games with an OPS+ under 75.
-- MWE
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Dusty has considered bringing him to Reds camp, even just as an NRI. If I were Neifi, that would be the first call I would make.
It just seems that way.
It sounds like the "hard times" are simply (a) the 80-game suspension for using stimulants and (b) the fact that Neifi is now so desperate that he's willing to accept a minor league contract with a spring training invite in an attempt to revive his career. Which sucks if you're Neifi, but in the grand scheme of things, not so much. "
I don't think we know that at all. There could be 100 personal reasons he has fallen on hard times right now
Play Index says you're right. Rafael Belliard is second, at 46.
I'm scared to think there are 21 other Belizean thugs out there.
That's one way of putting it. Another is, at age 32 he put up this line: .274/.298/.383, then he fell off a cliff.
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