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Originally Posted by Miles
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98 MPH fastball and a nasty slider will get you compared to Sutter regardless if Tony wants the comparisons or not.
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The Cardinals considered sending Perez, 23, to lower levels than Class AAA just to work on his slider but opted to keep him one rung below the majors. He was told to throw one slider for every fastball, and he did until "the feel came back," Perez said. He struck out 15 in seven innings in his recent stint at Memphis
He called the assignment "a chance to clear my head. I had confidence because of what I did (earlier this season in the majors). ... I figured out the slider and was able to keep my feel for it."