3:49 p.m. | Updated After days of failing to persuade the struggling Oliver Perez to accept a demotion to the minor leagues,
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Within hours of the Mets’ needing to make a roster move, Perez was put on the 15-day disabled list with knee tendinitis in time for the Mets to activate Jon Niese. Niese,
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Perez, who was removed from the rotation after a disastrous start May 14 in Florida in which he gave up seven runs and nine hits, including four home runs,
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He had a magnetic imaging resonance test Friday night and was expected to travel to Port St. Lucie, Fla.,
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Teams are not allowed to place players on the disabled list without a legitimate medical reason, so Major League Baseball will probably investigate the circumstances of this case.
The Mets must submit documentation,
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Manager Jerry Manuel said Perez had not complained of discomfort before Friday,
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“He said,
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Manuel acknowledged that the timing of Perez’s injury would raise suspicions, but he defended the legitimacy of the injury, even going so far as to coin a new word in doing so.
“In my years that I have been here, the Wilpons, Saul Katz, Omar Minaya, they have had similar situations where they could have used what I would say would be a less integrious option,” Manuel said. “But they never chose that.”
He added: “This purely is Oliver Perez. Oliver Perez came in and said that his knee bothered him. Again, I’ve been here a number of years; the integrity of those men has not wavered when it comes to these types of situations.”
Perez was 0-3 with a 6.28 earned run average in seven starts and four relief appearances. He consistently resisted a demotion and never complained of any physical ailments. Last September, Perez had surgery on the same knee.
By going on the disabled list, Perez will still receive the major league service time toward a 10-year pension, which he would not have received if he had accepted a demotion to the minors.
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