Oliver Perez has a new minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. According to MLB Trade Rumors, Perez will start the season in Triple A while Burnett and Slaten go north with the team. So as pitchers start to get injured or ineffective in during the season. Perez may get an opportunity to move up. When that happens, he will have to be paid the league minimum from the Nationals, so the Mets will save that little bite out of the 12 million left on his contract.
The interesting theme that has developed this week is that this is the second player to be released with from the Mets and then go to an NL East team. The first was Casillo who made his debut for the Phillies, going 0-4 at the plate.
If you remember, last year this occurred with Nelson Figueroa, who went on to struggle with the Phillies and the Astros.
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