CLEVELAND – Indians catcher Roberto Pérez will be sidelined for months following surgery on a fractured right ring finger.
Pérez played in pain for several weeks with the fracture, which happened when he got crossed up by reliever James Karinchak on April 14 in Chicago.
Pérez broke the finger on his throwing hand when he caught the pitch barehanded. Pérez left the Indians' series in Kansas City to visit hand specialist Dr.
Thomas Graham, who performed the operation. Graham did surgery on Pérez’s broken right thumb almost exactly five years ago. He missed two months after that procedure.