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Martín Pérez
B/T L/L · 6' 0" · 210 lb · born Guanare, Venezuela · age 35 · played P 26 · MLB debut 2012-06-27
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-04): 2 G · 9.2 IP · 1.86 ERA · 8 SO · 1.45 WHIP
499 batters faced scored this season His season card →
The Chase
1 W from 100 — our pace: ≈ September 23, 2026 Follow the chase →
The card rack
FlagshipMartin Perez [Gold] #US75 · 2024 Topps Update · 12 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%
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The rookieMartin Perez #633 · 2016 Topps Mini · 1 recent sales 7N ▲0%
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Scout’s note
Fourteen seasons in, Pérez is still giving Atlanta what he has always given: innings. The lefty from Guanare owns a 3.05 ERA across 121 MLB frames this year, striking out 91, and the ledger reads him at 1.3 WAR — useful, not luminous. He has fanned 1,244 men in a career that started in 2012. What you see is what the back of the baseball card has always said.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Pérez here — The Overnight: 6.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 K, 3 BB (August 11, 2026)
Current signals
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $3.41M
- Tax hit
- $3.41M
- Service time
- 13 yr 38 d
- Options left
- 1 / 3
The deal 1 year $3.5M (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y/$3.5M (26) · agent Octagon
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Regime flagged: the sheet's out-year codes read arbitration and 13.038 reads free_agency. Kept the sheet's; Super Two and optional assignments move this line and the service boundary cannot see them.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Atlanta Braves.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $3.50M
- Guaranteed
- $3.50M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- MiFA
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $3.5M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
What we said about him
Filed before the fact, with a metric, a threshold and a deadline, and never edited afterwards. This is the call we have on him. The whole record →
runs allowed per nine, in the window we called — +0.83 from a baseline of 3.2 (frozen at filing, off games through ), by .
NO LIVE GRADENo live grade. This resolves at the window's close on the RA9 he posts inside it — and we grade it then, not now. The in-flight scoreboard here is built on balls in play, which is a hitter's arithmetic; a pitcher's in-window pace has no validated model yet, so we do not print one and pretend.
A progress reading, not a forecast.
Nothing here has been graded yet — not because we have been wrong, but because no window has closed. The first one closes , and it will be counted either way.
A call is filed with a metric, a threshold and a window, timestamped, and never edited afterwards. Corrections are appended and the original stands. Hits, misses and open calls are all counted at the ledger.
On the record
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Collect Martín Pérez
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Umpire favor
+2.8 net runs over 22 graded games — the zone was kind to the umpire on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | IP | W–L | SV | ERA | SO | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 12 | 38.0 | 1–4 | 0 | 5.45 | 25 | 1.63 |
| 2013 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 20 | 124.1 | 10–6 | 0 | 3.62 | 84 | 1.34 |
| 2014 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 8 | 51.1 | 4–3 | 0 | 4.38 | 35 | 1.34 |
| 2015 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 14 | 78.2 | 3–6 | 0 | 4.46 | 48 | 1.42 |
| 2016 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 33 | 198.2 | 10–11 | 0 | 4.39 | 103 | 1.41 |
| 2017 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 32 | 185.0 | 13–12 | 0 | 4.82 | 115 | 1.54 |
| 2018 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 22 | 85.1 | 2–7 | 0 | 6.22 | 52 | 1.78 |
| 2019 | Minnesota Twins | MLB | 32 | 165.1 | 10–7 | 0 | 5.12 | 135 | 1.52 |
| 2020 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 12 | 62.0 | 3–5 | 0 | 4.50 | 46 | 1.34 |
| 2021 | Boston Red Sox | MLB | 36 | 114.0 | 7–8 | 0 | 4.74 | 97 | 1.51 |
| 2022 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 32 | 196.1 | 12–8 | 0 | 2.89 | 169 | 1.26 |
| 2023 | Texas Rangers | MLB | 35 | 141.2 | 10–4 | 0 | 4.45 | 93 | 1.40 |
| 2024 | Pittsburgh Pirates | MLB | 16 | 83.0 | 2–5 | 0 | 5.20 | 63 | 1.65 |
| 2024 | San Diego Padres | MLB | 10 | 52.0 | 3–1 | 0 | 3.46 | 44 | 1.21 |
| 2024 | Total | MLB | 26 | 135.0 | 5–6 | 0 | 4.53 | 107 | 1.48 |
| 2025 | Chicago White Sox | MLB | 11 | 56.0 | 1–6 | 0 | 3.54 | 44 | 1.11 |
| 2026 | Atlanta Braves | MLB | 26 | 121.0 | 8–8 | 0 | 3.05 | 91 | 1.21 |
| MLB CAREER | 351 | 1752.2 | 99–101 | 0 | 4.32 | 1244 | 1.42 | ||
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