Odalis Pérez
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Pérez with the Washington Nationals
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Born: June 11, 1977 Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 1, 1998, for the Atlanta Braves | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 28, 2008, for the Washington Nationals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Win–loss record | 73–82 | ||
| Earned run average | 4.46 | ||
| Strikeouts | 920 | ||
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Odalis Amadol Pérez (born June 11, 1977) is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He played with the Atlanta Braves (1998-2001), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2002-2006), the Kansas City Royals (2006-2007), and the Washington Nationals (2008).
Pérez is a 1995 graduate of Damian David Ortiz High School in his homeland. He is currently single and has a son, Odalis, Jr. Pérez has participated in community baseball clinics for the Dodgers and the Manny Mota International Foundation and has also visited schools in Los Angeles area as part of the Dodger Jams program.
Pérez joined the Braves in September 1998, going 0-1. However, he won a game for the Braves in the 1998 postseason, becoming the first pitcher in MLB history to earn a playoff win without ever having won a regular season game.
On May 2, 1999, Pérez got his first regular-season victory pitching 5.2 innings and allowing two earned runs with seven strikeouts, as Atlanta rolled to a 5-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
On January 15, 2002, he was traded by the Braves with Andrew Brown (minors) and Brian Jordan to the Dodgers for Gary Sheffield.
In a two-year period from 2002-2003, he won 27 games (15 in 2002, 12 in 2003), which was tied for the third most wins by a left-handed pitcher in the National League, joining Tom Glavine behind Randy Johnson and Al Leiter, and 10th most in the majors. Beside this, he was the first Dodger left-hander to register at least 12 wins in consecutive seasons since Fernando Valenzuela accomplished the feat between 1986 (21) and 1987 (14). During the same period, Pérez also had the sixth-most strikeouts mark (296) among all majors lefties, ranking fourth in the National League behind Johnson, Randy Wolf and Leiter.
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