{"id":673,"date":"2025-04-27T06:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:36:17","slug":"martin-perez-to-miss-majority-of-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/673\/","title":{"rendered":"Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez To Miss Majority Of 2025 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

5:25pm: Perez has been diagnosed with a flexor strain, per Scott Merkin of MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3:15pm: White Sox left-hander Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez<\/a> is on the injured list with inflammation in his throwing elbow and it doesn\u2019t appear he will be coming back soon. Jesse Rogers of ESPN<\/a> reports that the southpaw won\u2019t require Tommy John surgery but his season is effectively done regardless, though he could be throwing again in September.<\/p>\n

The lefty departed Friday\u2019s game after just three innings and the Sox placed him on the 15-day IL the next day. The club didn\u2019t provide any updates about how long they expected him to be out of action, but they quickly moved him to the 60-day IL yesterday when they added Bobby Dalbec<\/a> to the roster. That at least indicated they didn\u2019t expect him back within a couple of months, but it now seems he\u2019ll be out longer than that and may not return this year at all.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s obviously unfortunate for both P\u00e9rez and the Sox. The two sides agreed to a one-year, $5MM pact in the offseason. With the Sox having lost 121 games last year, the plan was presumably to have P\u00e9rez act as a stabilizing veteran presence in the rotation for at least a few months. If he pitched well into July, he would have been traded to a contender for prospects, giving him a chance to potentially play meaningful games while the Sox would add young talent to help in their rebuild.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all off the table now. P\u00e9rez made just four starts before landing on the shelf and it\u2019s possible he won\u2019t get a chance to add to that. Even if he does make it back in September, that would only give him a chance to make a start or two. In that scenario, the Sox might prefer to give the ball to young pitchers they are hoping to evaluate before the winter sets in.<\/p>\n

For now, the rotation on the South Side consists of Sean Burke<\/a>, Jonathan Cannon<\/a>, Davis Martin<\/a> and Shane Smith<\/a>. A fifth starter will be needed at some point to replace P\u00e9rez. Jairo Iriarte<\/a>, Nick Nastrini<\/a> and Owen White<\/a> are each on the 40-man and pitching in Triple-A so far this year. Justin Dunn<\/a> is a non-roster depth arm with big league experience, also in Triple-A at the moment. Some pitchers recently designated for assignment by other clubs include Triston McKenzie<\/a> and Yoendrys G\u00f3mez<\/a> and Michael Fulmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Eric Canha, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5:25pm: Perez has been diagnosed with a flexor strain, per Scott Merkin of MLB.com. 3:15pm: White Sox left-hander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,370,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-martin-perez","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114408546858574278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}