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An Irresponsibly Early Analysis of Jose Peraza

Jose Peraza has played in 16 games for your Cincinnati Reds. He played in 7 games for someone’s Los Angeles Dodgers. In total, Peraza has been to the plate 77 times. Since Bryan Price chose to play a possibly-concussed Billy Hamilton over Peraza on Thursday night, I don’t have to include any caveats like “through Wednesday’s game.” In reality, there really isn’t enough data to draw any meaningful conclusions.

See you next week, folks!

Peraza
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Oh. Right. I have to write something. Hm. Ok, then!

What we know about Peraza is as follows:

  • He doesn’t (and probably won’t) hit for much power
  • He swings at a lot of pitches
  • As a corollary to the above, he doesn’t walk much
  • He makes a lot of contact
  • He’s extremely fast
  • He was 21 years old on Opening Day
  • Many fans are unhappy with the Reds pursuit of Peraza

Ok, these are our going-in assumptions.