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We all knew Kerry Wood<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> was going to get hurt eventually, we just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.<\/p>\n The Indians announced Saturday that Wood will miss 6-8 weeks with a shoulder injury. Technically speaking, it’s a strained right latissimus dorsi muscle<\/a>. Call it what you will, bottom line, Kerry Wood is broken again. <\/p>\n With that, Chris Perez<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> steps into the closer chair. He impressed the Indians with his stuff down the stretch last year (mid-90s fastball, tight slider), striking out better than a batter per inning and limiting the American League to a .205 average. Perez also got a chance to close with the Cardinals late in 2008, converting 7-of-9 chances in the final two months (let’s not tax him for the misleading set-up blown saves he had earlier that season). He needs to keep the ball in the park a little better (that explains his less-than-ideal ERA), but he’s got the profile to handle the ninth inning. Perez hasn’t been scored upon in five appearances this spring.<\/p>\n If you’re looking to hedge past Chris Perez, note that Rafael Perez<\/a>(notes)<\/a><\/span> has thrown the ball well this spring<\/a> and he was a monster back in 2007 (and passable in 2008, before crashing last year). But he’s also left-handed and the team isn’t going to look to the lefty Perez unless the righty Perez can’t get it done.<\/p>\n We could say more, but these moments are about point-add-click. It’s time to acquire Chris Perez, then meet back in the comments.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Photo via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We all knew Kerry Wood(notes) was going to get hurt eventually, we just didn’t expect it to happen so quickly. The Indians announced Saturday that Wood will miss 6-8 weeks with a shoulder injury. Technically speaking, it’s a strained right latissimus dorsi muscle. Call it what you will, bottom line, Kerry Wood is broken again. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}