Carlos Pérez (pitcher)
| Carlos Pérez | |||
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| Pitcher | |||
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Born: April 14, 1971 Nigua, Dominican Republic |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 27, 1995, for the Montreal Expos | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 5, 2000, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 40–53 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.44 | ||
| Strikeouts | 448 | ||
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Carlos Gross Pérez (born 1971) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball and the brother of former major league players Melido Pérez and Pascual Pérez.
Pérez signed with the Montreal Expos as an amateur free agent in 1988. After being an All-Star pitcher in his debut season in 1995, Pérez's career looked extremely promising. However, he soon suffered an untimely and devastating injury which forced him to miss the entire 1996 season. After rehabilitation, he re-joined the Expos in 1997 but still displayed steady showings of his All-Star form. After several productive months into the 1998 season, Pérez was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 31 along with Hiram Bocachica and Mark Grudzielanek for Peter Bergeron, Wilton Guerrero, Ted Lilly, and Jonathan Tucker.
By the time he became a Dodger, his once likely potential for being a dominant left-handed major league pitcher was quickly slipping away. Frustration grew and Pérez pitched his two worst seasons in 1999 (2-10 in only 16 starts) and 2000 he was relegated to the bullpen (after an entire career as a starter). On June 16, 1999, Pérez had a somewhat famous outburst during a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Dodger Stadium. After consecutively walking Abraham Nunez, Francisco Córdova and Mike Benjamin to load the bases in the fourth inning, Perez was removed from the game by Dodger Manager Davey Johnson in favor of Jamie Arnold. After returning to the dugout, Pérez proceeded to passionately destroy a water cooler with a baseball bat for several moments. Ironically the Dodgers went on to win the game 6-5. His performance soon thereafter, coupled with a legal issue stemming from an airplane flight in which a flight attendant accused Pérez of choking, threatening, and causing injury to her, forced him to an early exit from baseball.
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