TODAY: The White Sox placed Perez on the 15-day injured list due to what was described as inflammation in his throwing elbow. Jared Shuster was called up from Triple-A to take Perez’s spot on the active roster.
APRIL 18: Martín Pérez departed tonight’s loss in Boston after three innings. The White Sox announced that the lefty experienced forearm soreness that prompted his departure. Pérez said postgame that he’ll go for imaging on Saturday (link via LaMond Pope of The Chicago Tribune).
“I feel sore. I was just trying to be smart and tell them to get me out of the game and see what I got. We have to wait for the MRI tomorrow,” he told reporters. “In the third inning, I started feeling kind of fatigued a little bit. But I feel bad because I don’t want to be in this situation. I want to keep pitching and competing but it is what it is. Wait and see what it’s going to be and the decision and move on.”
Pérez signed a one-year, $5MM free agent deal to serve as a veteran presence in an otherwise young rotation. Tonight’s start was his worst of the season, as he gave up four runs on five hits and a couple walks without recording a strikeout. Pérez had managed quality starts in two of his first three outings. He carries a 3.15 ERA across 20 innings. His 21.7% strikeout percentage is around league average, but he has walked more than 13% of batters faced.
Davis Martin, Jonathan Cannon and rookies Sean Burke and Shane Smith have joined Pérez in the season-opening rotation. That quintet has made all 19 starts. Pérez and Smith, a Rule 5 pick out of the Milwaukee system, are the only two who have managed decent results. Owen White, Nick Nastrini, Jairo Iriarte, Justin Dunn and Chris Rodriguez make up the rotation at Triple-A Charlotte.
All five have some major league experience. White, Nastrini and Iriarte are on the 40-man roster (as is lefty Jared Shuster, who has moved to multi-inning relief in the minors). Dunn easily leads the Charlotte rotation with 27 strikeouts, but he has also given up a team-high four home runs and has allowed nearly five earned runs per nine. Someone from that group would probably get the call to step into the rotation if Pérez requires an injured list stint. The Sox could also consider building Rule 5 pick Mike Vasil, who is working 2-3 inning stints in mop-up relief, for rotation work.
Mike Clevinger also seems set to join the Charlotte rotation. The Sox outrighted the veteran righty off their 40-man roster this afternoon. Clevinger has the service time to decline the assignment in favor of free agency. Bruce Levine of 670 The Score reports that the Sox intend for Clevinger to build back up as a starter in Triple-A, so it appears he’ll accept the outright and remain in the system. The 34-year-old moved to the bullpen to begin this year. He gave up five runs with eight walks and three strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings before being designated for assignment.
ENOUGH with Mike Clevinger! Why does he keep lingering in this organization? Hated seeing Perez go down as he seems like a solid stabilizing force on this young team. Hopefully he avoids the IL, but I’m also excited to see a lot of the young guys get their first meaningful reps in at the big league level.
Simple, Clevinger is around still because the White Sox have nothing else. This is what happens when you have an inept owner and a yes man for a GM with no cache to challenge the owner.
The GM (inept or not) can only do what the Owner wants. As the owner has decided that spending in FA or actually building a competitive team is secondary to profitability then sadly the options are limited to *Perez-like* signings or rookies becoming superstars.
It’s not all his fault. After, this has been going on far too long and the misuse of resources equally (poor drafts , bad pick ups, awful trades and cheap international signings) but it’s Jerry and his money that decides the course.
To be fair, there is no reason to spend on this team right now. They’re horrible. Adding $100 mil to the payroll would only make them very very bad instead. Furthermore, I don’t imagine any free agents would go there right now without massive overpays. They have no real alternative to a long, painful rebuild. Is what it is.
Jerry, is that you?
To me, they ‘cant’ spend money right now is a BS argument.. so, when is the time to spend money? ever? I mean when is the ‘perfect time’ to do this?
Im not saying they need to spend a zillions bucks all at once, but during a rebuild they need to get the right players in place, at least to help show the younger players how to play by example or leadership, which is something else this team STILL lacks (and sometimes that takes money as this coaching staff is laughable when half of it from last season is still here), and I just do not see that with Getz and his ‘GMing for dummies book’ doing that. I see an ever continuous ‘rebuild’ with constant streams of retreads and cheapo players hoping to be flipped and where these prospects we see now will be flipped because, well, the team is not in the ‘perfect scenario’ to spend because that perfect time is not upon us and they have to move them before their ‘arb’ dates. So, when IS the best time to start spending??
Please tell Getz and that mummy of a boss of his. too.
Finally, this argument of ‘cannot spend as this is a long painful rebuild’ is a contradiction to what is currently occurring now on the team which guys like Thorpe and now Meidroth and Quero all having their service time started on this ‘horrible’ team. You do not do that if you (or rather the org) are thinking this rebuild is going to take years.
So which is it?
Trying to do a quick flip in which the time to start strategically spending started this season, or its a long painful rebuild where we are going to take our top prospects and start them in the majors (I guess to hope the pan out and if so to start shopping to flip them in the next year or so)?
NRD – I think they need to trade Robert for whatever they can get for him, Vaughn too. Anything in return at this point. They need to give CF to Travis Jankowski, and they need to get Drury back in the lineup. I liked when Jankowski was on the big league roster, at least we had a grisled vet in the lineup.
Time to give Ramos a good look at third too. DFA Vargas, bring up Elko at 1st and go with a Meidroth / Baldwin / Sosa MI. Bobby Dalbec and Quero at DH with Korey Lee and/or Thaiss.
Might as well keep it popping. Why run Robert, Vaughn and Vargas out there every day when they hit like tuna sandwiches.
How is a losing team even profitable? Nobody goes to the games and no one can watch them on TV.
Unfortunately, Vargas is probably going to be out there for some time in order for Getz to try to feel he won the trade.
I think a bigger issue is they did not clean house after that 121 loss clunker of a season. That should have gotten every coach fired from last season (not just half of them), if anything just to try to clear the stink from last season, that goes for Guys like Vaughn and even Robert, who I think still can be great, but just has gotten beaten down by this org.
If they are going to really ‘flip’ this team then do it, it should not be a long rebuild if these prospects are supposedly ready.
I listen on the radio ESPN 1000, if you can stand Brennaman and DJ its ok. I actually prefer radio over tv, dont have to focus as much and can take in the game the same.
Only thing I miss about tv is watching the pitch mix, the break on the pitchers off speed stuff, how they locate, etc…
I actually like Vargas, he’s showing good instincts at 3rd and sees a lot of pitches. Having disciplined guys at the plate like Meidroth, Vargas and the early loom at Quero’s a good start. Hopefully Rojas affords them a dose of professionalism as well. Hope they hang on to Martin- he’s been a good mentor to the kids on the staff so far. Sorta the anti Lance Lynn- Joe Kelly – Kendall Graveman
Brennaman?
Sox need pitching to eat innings.
He is now in the minors to stretch out to become a starter again.
The White Sox are off to a crushing start, Perez was a bright spot, was a game to look forward to when he was starting. Disappointing news.
I wouldn’t wanna pitch for this team either
miller – I knew something was wrong with him last night, weak hitters like Rafaela were all over his pitches. Hope he gets well soon.
Thought they would be a little bit better offense than last season with Benintendi/Robert bouncing back and Tauchman providing quality ABs instead of IL. What is the new hitting guru Fuller doing to make anyone better at baseball? They had almost nowhere to go but up….yet it’s worse. Vargas remains awful, Vaughn is dfa material….and who pitches is inconsequential as far as still being a misleading cheap series sweep for whoever they play (and then that team is laughably described as “hot”).
The bullpen seems to regress to normal bad but the offense hasn’t really changed tbh.
CWS – how bad has Vaughn been? he hit that three run homer against the A’s the other night I almost fell out of my tent. Robert’s trade value has gone to nil, Maybe the Braves will take him for a prospect.
Time to give Elko a look at first. Benintendi hits when he is in the lineup.
Has anyone besides me noticed Robert has broken at least 3 bats in last week?
Does he know how to turn the label away from contact?
I didn’t think that the bad manufacturers still used a branding iron to put their logo on a bat thus weakening the bat at that spot. I thought all of them were using paint nowadays to put their logo on with.
This team is very hard to watch. Even worse is being a life long White Sox fan and seeing what the owner has done to it. Starting pitching was decent but trending to bad now. Offense is getting a walk every once in a while. Pathetic would be a good word for it. But on the bright side side- everyone loves to play us!!
Burke is better iff in the bullpen, bullpen is awful too, I dont know if there is a single keeper in that bullpen.
The SP has been fine so far, you can’t expect an inexperienced SP rotation to pull off Zack Grienke’s rookie season stats.
I guess your idea of ‘Fine’ and mine are way apart..All of these guys are a bit Jeckyl and hyde at best. They have Smith as their only consistent guy, the rest? I mean check their starts… Ugh.
Also if the Bullpen is that bad, maybe the starters need to get past the 6th inning as well, just saying. Glad they kept Katz around ’cause he knows what he is doing… *cough*.
Look, when you are 4-15, everyone is bad.. no one is ‘fine’.
This is shades of excuses like last year and we saw how that played out. Now they are bringing up their prospects to try to make this team better when it has a 1st time manager, half of a coaching staff from last years debacle, and a lot of bench players acting like starters ( many who already are demoralized from last years train wreck). I have no free access to their new sports network and Im kinda glad at this point.
Forearm soreness. We all know what that means. See you in late-summer of 2026, Martin.
Yeah, not sure why pitchers even go through motions of trying to rehab that injury as most times its usually followed with TJS.
You know what this means… Calling Dr. Andrews TJS… see ya next July 2026… IT NEVER ENDS
Actually I remembered he’s only on a 1 yr contract, so bye bye
This is going to hurt their chances of making the postseason
LOL, thanks for the chuckle
So much for him being a mid summer trade chip.
As far Vaughn, if they insist on keeping him, they should at least send him down to Charlotte.
Vaughn: .145/.192/.453
Sheets: .327/.382/.892
And yeah I get its a small sample and Vaughn has more bats, but still. At least Gavin is left handed power.
Sorry to see this. He pitched so well last year and so far this year.