Sunday, August 6, 2006By Mike Steffanos
On his Surfing the Mets Blog, Adam Rubin interviews Mets' Minor League Pitching Coordinator Rick Waits regarding Oliver Perez' first Norfolk start:
[Perez] was missing down a lot, which is a good sign. He just had a little problem with his fastball command. We're going to go to work today. This is the first day in a lot of ways. You've got to let a guy throw and take a look at him.The thing I saw last night that was well is he's got an electric arm with his fastball and a real sharp slider. Just like with a lot of pitchers we're going to work on a consistent delivery. The game wasn't good last night. But the first inning he got the bases loaded and no out and should have gotten out of it. The umpire missed a call at third. He ended up giving up just one run. I liked the way he battled.
We really haven't done a lot with him yet. He just got here. We wanted him to pitch. There's a lot of things we're going to discover.
Rubin cites Waits that Perez' fastball was getting up into the low 90s, which is a good sign since he had lost so much velocity in his last starts with the Pirates, but his mechanics were really off.
Read Rubin's full Mets Minor League Report here.
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