Starting Pitcher: The Book on Oliver Perez
According to yesterday’s New York Post, Oliver Perez remains on Omar Minaya’s off-season radar.
Last night, in a post to a blog for the New 
York Times, Michael S. Schmidt provides details from the Book on Oliver Perez, made available to teams by his agent, Scott Boras.
According to Schmidt, the book is divided into eight chapters, such as: ‘Perez Turns Corner in 2006,’ ‘Perez Is One of Baseball’s Top 5 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers,’ ‘Big-Game Ollie,’ ‘Durable Ollie,’ ‘Perez Eats Innings,’ and ‘Dominates on the Biggest Stage.’
…i’m guessing boras skipped the chapters that could have been titled, ‘Ollie Under .500,’ and, ‘Errors and Wild Pitches: When the Wheels Come Off the Wagon.’…
According to a recent report from Ken Rosenthal at FoxSports.com, “The Mets probably would go to $12 million per season for Perez, but Boras almost certainly will want more for Perez than the Mariners gave right-hander Carlos Silva last offseason,” i.e., a four-year, $48 million contract.
Meanwhile, the Cubs are willing to give free-agent RHP Ryan Dempster a four-year contract, reports Rosenthal.
…in other words, if dempster gets a four-year deal, and silva got a four-year deal last year, the Mets are not bringing back oliver for anything less…in fact, it can be argued he should get more, which is hard to believe…
By the way, speaking of left-handed pitchers, in SI.com, Jon Heyman says the Mets are looking at free-agent LHP Randy Wolf, in addition to Perez and Derek Lowe.
Last week, in a poll on MetsBlog.com, 70 percent of voters said they would sign Perez to a three-year deal.
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