Darrin Beene is entering his seventh year at The News Tribune, having covered the Tacoma Rainiers in 2005 and Major League Baseball for two years before that. Beene, a former assistant sports editor at The News Tribune, also worked for the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times. He lives in the South Sound with his wife and two children.
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The Seattle Mariners acquired infielder Eduardo Perez from the Cleveland Indians on Friday in exchange for Triple-A shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera.
Perez, 36, has played in 37 games for the Indians this year, hitting .303 (30x99) with eight home runs and 22 RBI. He is a .330 hitter (29-for-88) with eight home runs against left-handed pitchers this season. The eight home runs vs. left-handed pitching are the (tie) third-most in the American League.
"Eduardo is a veteran, proven right-handed bat that allows us to be stronger against left-handed pitching. We think adding him to our big league club strengthens a spot that we want to be stronger as we look to the second half of the season," Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi said.
Since the start of the 2002 season, Perez has hit .294 (124x422) with 31 doubles and 33 homers, against left-handed pitching, posting a .382 on-base percentage and a .602 slugging percentage.
Perez is in his 13th Major League season and has played for five Major League teams: the Angels, Reds, Cardinals, Devil Rays and Indians. While playing mostly as a first baseman (291 games), he has also played third base (104 games), right field (101 games) and left field (44 games). He has a .250 career average with 87 doubles, 78 home runs and 283 RBI. He has hit seven career pinch-hit homers, (tie) seventh-most among active players.
The slick-fielding Cabrera, 20, hit .236 (48x203) with 27 runs scored, 12 doubles, two triples, three home runs, seven stolen bases and 22 RBI in 60 games with thte Tacoma Rainiers. He has reached base safely in 43 of the 60 games he has appeared in this season, including 14 consecutive games from April 6-May 3.
Cabrera made his first error of the season on May 30 after playing 36 straight games (165 TC) at shortstop without an error. He is currently first among all shortstops in the Pacific Coast League with a .986 fielding percentage.
