Héctor Pérez (baseball)

Pérez signed with the Houston Astros as an international free agent in 2014. In 2015, he was assigned to the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League Astros, and later promoted to the Gulf Coast League Astros and Rookie Advanced Greeneville Astros. In 17 pitching appearances, Pérez posted a 2–0 win–loss record, 1.64 earned run average (ERA), and 50 strikeouts in 55 innings pitched.[1] He split time in 2016 with the Short Season-A Tri-City ValleyCats and the Class-A Quad Cities River Bandits, and worked to a 4–1 combined record, 3.15 ERA, and 80 strikeouts in 60 innings.[1] Perez opened the 2017 season with the River Bandits, and was later promoted to the Advanced-A Buies Creek Astros. In a career-high 1071⁄3 innings, Pérez posted a 7–6 record, 3.44 ERA, and 128 strikeouts.[1]

Pérez was assigned to Buies Creek to begin 2018, and earned a promotion to the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks in early July.[1]

On July 30, 2018, the Astros traded Pérez, Ken Giles, and David Paulino to the Blue Jays for Roberto Osuna.[2] The Blue Jays added him to their 40-man roster after the season. He spent the 2019 season with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, recording a 7-6 record and 4.60 ERA in 26 games. He made his major league debut September 16, 2020.[3] With the 2020 Toronto Blue Jays, Pérez appeared in 1 game, compiling a 0-0 record with 10.80 ERA and 1 strikeouts in 1.2 innings pitched.[4]

On January 22, 2021, Pérez was traded to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for cash considerations or a player to be named later (Darlin Guzman was sent to Toronto as the PTBNL on July 8[5]).[6] After struggling to a 9.35 ERA across 7 appearances for the Triple-A Louisville Bats, Pérez was designated for assignment on June 2, 2021.[7] At the time of his designation, Pérez had not appeared in a game with Cincinnati. He was outrighted to Triple-A Louisville on June 7.[8]