page_title: Óliver Pérez
section_title: Seattle Mariners
hierarchical_section_title: Óliver Pérez / Professional career / Seattle Mariners
caption_attribution_description: English: Seattle Mariners pitcher Óliver Pérez warms up in the bullpen in Oakland, California.
context_page_description: Óliver Pérez Martínez is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He previously played for the San Diego Padres, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks, Houston Astros, and Washington Nationals. He has also competed for the Mexican national baseball team in the 2006, 2009, and 2013 World Baseball Classics.
context_section_description: On January 19, 2012, the Seattle Mariners signed Pérez to a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training. The contract contained a $750,000 bonus for making the Mariners 25-man roster and $250,000 in performance incentives. Pérez made 22 relief appearances with the Tacoma Rainiers of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, was 2-2 with a 4.65 ERA, and was promoted to the major league club on June 16 as a reliever.  In his first month back in the majors since 2010, observers took note of his improved fastball velocity and strikeout-to-walk ratio. In 2012, Pérez went 1-3 with a 2.12 ERA with 29.2 innings in 33 games.
  On November 3, Pérez signed a one-year, $1.5 million deal with up to $600,000 in performance bonuses.
caption: Pérez pitching for the Seattle Mariners in 2013
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