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| 23rd February, 2009 - 6:25 pm | Washington Post - The Nationals have released pitcher Odalis Perez, who didn't report to spring training and failed to return any of the team's phone calls.
Perez signed a non-guaranteed minor league contract with Washington on Feb. 5, a deal that would pay him $850,000 if he made the club.
He later regretted it, and held out for a better deal.
"He would not return our phone calls, and after talking internally with [Manager] Manny Acta and [pitching coach] Randy St. Claire and the organization, we all feel it's important that we want players here than want to be here and want to help us win, so we made that decision this morning," General Manager Jim Bowden said.
"Well, we left messages yesterday for his agent, left messages for him, again I left messages again this morning, and they've made their point really clear, and so we thanked Odalis; he did a good job for us last year, and we appreciate all he did for us, and obviously we're disappointed it turned out this way, but at the same time we need to turn the page. We've got a lot of pitchers in camp that are committed to helping us win, and we want players that want to be here." [READ] |
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