designated for assignment<\/a> after making three appearances with the club this season. <\/p>\nThe Cardinals should bring the veteran in![\"Atlanta](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/01kp49jyv1r2j80mgnqw.jpg\" "\\"Atlanta")
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Apr 5, 2026; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Atlanta Braves pitcher Martin Perez (33) throws during the first inning at Chase Field against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Mandatory Credit: Arianna Grainey-Imagn Images | Arianna Grainey-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
“The Braves today recalled LHP Dylan Dodd to Atlanta and designated LHP Mart\u00edn P\u00e9rez for assignment,” the Braves announced. <\/p>\n
P\u00e9rez has made three appearances so far this season, including two starts, and had a 3.14 ERA in 14 1\/3 innings for Atlanta before being designated for assignment. He’s a 15-year big league veteran who has appeared in 328 total big league games, including 281 starts. In 2025, he made 11 appearances with the Chicago White Sox, including 10 starts, and had a 3.54 ERA. <\/p>\n
The Cardinals could use either a starter or a long relief guy right now. Kyle Leahy has specifically struggled so far this season in the starting rotation. Adding someone like P\u00e9rez would give the Cardinals another veteran option while giving the team an opportunity to move Leahy back to the bullpen. Then, there wouldn’t be much harm in eventually moving P\u00e9rez when Hunter Dobbins is ready to be promoted to the majors. Richard Fitts just got placed on the minor league Injured List, so he isn’t ready for a promotion right now. <\/p>\n
P\u00e9rez has done it all. He’s been a starter and a reliever throughout his career. At this point, it wouldn’t hurt to add another veteran hurler. P\u00e9rez would be an easy option because the Cardinals could simply just place a waiver claim on him. It also doesn’t hurt that P\u00e9rez and Cardinals president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom actually overlapped over with the Boston Red Sox. At this point, why not? Even if the Cardinals don’t want to shake up the rotation, go out and nab him and put him in the bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Cardinals could use at least one more hurler right now. On Monday, the club made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-675044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlantabraves","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-braves","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116399911440802668","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675044","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=675044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}