Marcelo Perez Forum

Marcelo Perez, PID 73291, has the first five cards. The last three belong to a high school player from Laredo, Texas. www.perfectgame.org has VERY little info for him. How can a new PID be created for someone with hardly anything to fill in for his bio? These Leaf Perfect Game sets are hard to figure out!!!

Do we have at least a birth year? I like how we have in the listings:

Schmoe, Joe (b. 1953)
Schmoe, Joe (b. 1979)

Birthdate doesn't change. Positions or teams can. (Just think if Rick Ankiel had been the 2nd one to come along, and we listed him as "Ankiel, Rick (P)". That wouldn't have worked too well.)

Looked at the "kid's" page over at PG. So, as of Feb 2018, it says he is 18 yrs, 3 mos which leads me to a Decemeber 1999 birthdate. So, let's add a PID for another Marcelo Perez (b. 1999), but obviously for now, the birthdate in the profile will remain blank until it's determined.

That is what I was planning to do. However, I was hesitant to add a PID with so little info, especially an up and coming player. Thanks for adding it. PG makes it difficult. I just looked up the last name Cruz and found 6 different ones with the same lack of bio information.

Yes, it's tough. When I was doing a lot of the name verification in baseball, I came across a few of these sets. It would literally take days to validate one set. PG has some info, but not a lot (with good reason, birthdates for high schoolers should not be public info), so I totally understand the lack of info. Give things a couple years, and if they get drafted (which it appears that most of the PG players are draftable), we'll be able to get the info at that time.