{"id":81838,"date":"2024-07-30T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81838"},"modified":"2024-07-30T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T23:03:23","slug":"padres-trade-perez-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/padres-trade-perez-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres Get Veteran Starting Pitcher from Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have acquired veteran left-handed starting pitcher <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perezma02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez<\/a> in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates. First with the story was Francys Romero.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Martin Perez trade to the Padres, per sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francysromeroFR\/status\/1818405271548354916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Padres Get Veteran Starting Pitcher Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez in Trade with Pirates<\/h2>\n<p>Nobody should be surprised that the Pirates have moved on from P\u00e9rez. When he was signed to a one-year deal, it seemed likely that he\u2019d be dealt at the deadline when starters from the Pirates\u2019 minor league stash were ready. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=jonesja09,jones-013jar&amp;search=Jared+Jones&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Jones<\/a> unexpectedly made the squad out of spring training, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ortizlu03,ortizlu02,ortiz-014lui,ortizlu01&amp;search=Luis+Ortiz&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Ortiz<\/a> has since emerged as a viable option. Thus, the inconsistent P\u00e9rez was expendable. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/falteba01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bailey Falter<\/a> off the injured list and scheduled to start Tuesday night\u2019s game, the Pirates have six starting pitchers on the active roster, with Jones soon to follow. In that group, P\u00e9rez is the No. 7 starter.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, P\u00e9rez is 2-5 with a 5.20 ERA and 1.651 WHIP. Opponents are hitting .312\/.376\/.499 against him. While he began the season as the Pirates\u2019 No. 2 starter, he profiles as strictly a back-of-the-rotation starter. He had a 2.86 ERA at the end of April. Since then, he\u2019s had a 6.89 ERA and 6.14 FIP, with opponents hitting .346\/.404\/.595 against him. He had a 2.89 ERA as recently as 2022. The Padres hope they\u2019re getting the P\u00e9rez of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/28\/rays-jason-adam-trade-padres\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">deal<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/adamja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jason Adam<\/a> followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/padres-acquire-tanner-scott-marlins\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">another<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scottta01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tanner Scott<\/a>, the Padres are going all-in for 2024. The Padres seem to have an endless supply of prospects to deal at the deadline. Heading into the deadline, one of the Padres\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/09\/2024-padres-contenders-or-pretenders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">biggest weaknesses was pitching<\/a>. It\u2019s unknown how they plan on using P\u00e9rez, but he has major-league experience in both the rotation and the bullpen.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Pirates are Getting<\/h3>\n<p>The Pirates are getting unranked left-handed pitching prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=jimene004ron&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronaldys Jimenez<\/a> in the exchange. For what it\u2019s worth, he\u2019s pitched six innings in the Rookie league this season, giving up one run and striking out eight. More importantly for the Pirates, they save on the remainder of P\u00e9rez\u2019s $8 million contract.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres have acquired veteran left-handed starting pitcher Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates. First with the story was Francys Romero. Martin Perez trade to the Padres, per sources. \u2014 Francys Romero (@francysromeroFR) July 30, 2024 Padres Get Veteran Starting Pitcher Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez in Trade with Pirates Nobody should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":81867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,35,26,30],"tags":[3599,3255,5660],"class_list":["post-81838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","category-pirates","category-padres","tag-jason-adam","tag-martin-perez","tag-tanner-scott"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}