{"id":712936,"date":"2026-05-30T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/712936\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:42:14","slug":"mets-select-cionel-perez-designate-anderson-severino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/712936\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Select Cionel Perez, Designate Anderson Severino"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets announced that they have selected the contract of left-hander Cionel Perez<\/a> from Triple-A Syracuse.\u00a0 To create room on the 26-man and 40-man rosters, right-hander Tobias Myers<\/a> was optioned to Triple-A and left-hander Anderson Severino<\/a> was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n

Perez signed a minor league deal with the Nationals last offseason and then made the Opening Day roster, thus guaranteeing a $1.9MM salary for the 2026 season.\u00a0 After struggling to a 6.19 ERA over 16 games and innings, Perez was outrighted off Washington\u2019s 40-man roster at the start of May, and he rejected that outright assignment in favor of free agency.\u00a0 The Mets came calling with another minors contract just a couple of days later, and Perez will get another chance to get his 2026 season (and to some extent his career) back in the right direction.<\/p>\n

A veteran of nine MLB seasons, Perez\u2019s best work came with the Orioles from 2022-24, when he posted a 3.12 ERA and allowed only four homers over 164 2\/3 innings out of the Baltimore pen.\u00a0 The grounder specialist\u2019s ability to keep the ball in the park helped paper over some uninspiring strikeout and walk rates, but since Opening Day 2025, Perez has a 7.41 ERA over 37 2\/3 big league innings, with 29 walks and only 30 strikeouts.\u00a0 While he is still generating grounders at an elite rate, Perez has given up five homers in his last two seasons of work, so batters are doing heavy damage when they\u2019re able to get the ball in the air.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if Perez can get on track in Queens, or if he might soon find himself back in DFA limbo as part of the Mets\u2019 neverending bullpen churn.\u00a0 Brooks Raley<\/a>, A.J. Minter<\/a>, and now David Peterson<\/a> represent other left-handed options in New York\u2019s relief corps, and Perez might just be on board for a cup of coffee as a fresh arm after the Mets went 10 innings in yesterday\u2019s 9-7 win over the Marlins.<\/p>\n

Since Perez has more than five years of MLB service time, he was able to retain his 2026 salary even after declining his outright assignment from the Nationals.\u00a0 That means that Washington will owe him the rest of that $1.9MM, with the Mets on the hook for just the prorated portion of a Major League minimum salary for any time Perez spends on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Severino\u2019s big league resume consists of six games and 7 1\/3 innings (with a 6.14 ERA) for the White Sox in 2022.\u00a0 After being cut loose by the Sox following that season, he spent the next three seasons outside of affiliated baseball, including two years in the Mexican League before the Mets signed Severino to a minors contract in November.<\/p>\n

New York selected Severino\u2019s contract to its 40-man roster 11 days ago but optioned Severino to Triple-A, probably indicating that Severino had some kind of opt-out clause in his deal if he wasn\u2019t included on a 40-man roster.\u00a0 His 1.31 ERA and 51.1% grounder rate over 20 2\/3 innings for Triple-A Syracuse could draw some attention on the waiver wire, but those impressive numbers are undermined by a .229 BABIP and 13.8% walk rate, plus Severino\u2019s 25% strikeout rate isn\u2019t anything special.<\/p>\n

Myers\u2019 demotion to Triple-A is also worth mention, as he has a 4.05 ERA over 33 1\/3 innings this season (working as a proper reliever in 18 games and making two pseudo-starts as an opener).\u00a0 His ability to pitch multiple innings as been helpful for the Mets, but Myers has allowed at least one earned run in four of his last five outings, and he was charged for two runs during an inning of work yesterday.\u00a0 Myers will probably be called back up before too long, particularly if Perez is indeed just in the Show for a short amount of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets announced that they have selected the contract of left-hander Cionel Perez from Triple-A Syracuse.\u00a0 To create…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[62158,5,8754,2006],"class_list":["post-712936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-anderson-severino","tag-baseball","tag-cionel-perez","tag-tobias-myers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116664765257358175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712936","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=712936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}