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Tony Perez

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Baseball Player

The Resume

    (May 14, 1942- )
    Born in Ciego de Avila, Cuba
    Infielder for the Cincinnati Reds (1964-76,1984-86), Montreal Expos (1977-79), Boston Red Sox (1980-82) and Philadelphia Phillies (1983)
    Managed the Cincinnati Reds (1993) and Florida Marlins (2001)
    .279 career batting average
    2,732 hits
    379 home runs
    1,652 RBIs
    Seven-time All Star (1967-70,1974-76)
    #24 retired by the Reds
    Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (2000)

Why he might be annoying:

    His signing bonus with the Reds was $2.50 to cover the cost of a visa plus a plane ticket to Miami (1960).
    He admitted to not being a very disciplined hitter: 'Anything I could reach, I'd swing at. Sometimes that gave me trouble, sometimes that helped me.'
    He led the NL in errors by a third baseman three consecutive years (1968-70) and in errors by a first baseman once (1973).
    There were rumors that he was hired as Reds manager mainly as a PR exercise after Marge Schott's racist comments were publicized. (Another factor was that he was one of the few candidates for the position who liked Schott's dog Schottzie.)

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was known as a clutch hitter.
    In a 23-year Major League career, he was never on the disabled list.
    At 44, he became the oldest player to hit a grand slam, breaking Honus Wagner's 70-year-old record. (His record was broken by Julio Franco at age 46 in 2004.)
    Manager Sparky Anderson called him the 'heart and soul' of Cincy's '70s Big Red Machine.
    Joe Morgan said, 'Tony was our glue.... Had Tony not been traded, we might have won another world championship, maybe two, maybe more, who knows? He was that valuable and that important to our team.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 10 Votes: 10.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 75 Votes: 42.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 22.22% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 45.00% Annoying