Pérez is a candidate to make the Opening Day roster with the way he’s pitched in camp, but relievers with options are valuable from a team’s perspective. When General Manager Nick Krall was asked at the beginning of the offseason about the team’s biggest need, he mentioned shortstop and bullpen flexibility.
“We got stuck a couple of times last year because we had to take a couple guys off the roster who were out of options,” Krall said in November. “We might have played an extra-inning game and/or had a doubleheader the day before.
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