Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 23, 2009
Staying Away

Could the Washington Nationals be so bad that Odalis Perez doesn't want to play for them? He never showed up to camp, so the Nationals released him:

"He would not return our phone calls, and after talking internally with [Manager] Manny Acta and [pitching coach] Randy St. Claire and the organization, we all feel it's important that we want players here than want to be here and want to help us win, so we made that decision this morning," General manager Jim Bowden said, according to the Washington Post..

Perez has expressed his dissatisfaction with his contract since he gave his agent the OK to sign a non-guaranteed minor league deal with Washington on Feb. 5 that would pay him $850,000 if he makes the team, the same stipulation he faced last year.

Why bother with the contract in the first place? I also wonder if this makes him a free agent, or does not showing up preclude him from signing with other teams?


Posted by David Pinto at 12:42 PM | Players | TrackBack (0)
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They'd have been within their rights to put him on the restricted list for a year, in which case he can't play for someone else. but if they didn't do that, he's free to do as he wishes, if he can find someone to sign him.

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