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I am so mad at the Mets for resigning Perez instead of getting a more established pitcher such as Lowe or Garland.  Todays performance was a glimpse of what we can look forward to all season.  Perez has a career record of 55 wins and 60 losses.  In the off season he signed a $36 million dollar contract. That’s $650,000 per career win.  Not good. 

Oliver Perez’s outing Wednesday alarmed his manager, not because he gave up six runs but because he walked six in 3 2-3 innings of the New York Mets’ 10-6 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday.

Mets manager Jerry Manuel said he will watch Perez, who gave up five hits, carefully in his next couple of outings.

“I think when you don’t have command and you don’t have that extra velocity, you’re going to struggle and that’s what happened today,” Manuel said. “(Perez) had neither. We have some things to work out.”

Perez’s outing comes a day after Mike Pelfrey gave up six earned runs and 10 hits, and fellow starter John Maine has struggled, too. He has a 10.38 ERA this spring coming off September surgery to shave a bone spur in his right shoulder.