Why Oliver Perez is now Oliver PГ©rez - at least on his Nationals jersey

In Venezuelan newspapers, the Rockies’s all-star outfielder is referred to as Carlos González but his t-shirt doesn’t let the tilde on the “a”. The Rangers’s stellar third baseman’s differentiate is technically spelled Adrián Beltré but the Dominican native’s jersey says “ Beltre .” With and without the accent marks, the names are pronounced differently.
In Spanish, a tilde heart any idiom o'er a letter, piece it is narrowly victimised in English to define the squiggly mark terminated the “n.” The “ñ” is usually ascertained crossways baseball, such as in former Nationals/swarm Rays quilt Xavier Cedeño or Cardinals catcher Brayan Peña.

Nationals clubhouse and equipment manager Mike Wallace aforesaid he has added emphasize marks to jerseys in the past.
In the Nationals ’ gild, he is the lone one with an distressed moniker. Catcher Jose Lobaton said technically his name is hypothetic to be spelled José Lobatón but he is o.k. without the accents, as they are unremarkably called in English. In his aborigine Venezuela, Lobaton aforementioned punctuate marks are, by impost, not requisite in names.

According to Baseball-Reference.com, the leading baseball information clearinghouse, starter Gio Gonzalez’s soubriquet has a stress mark over the “a”. Oliver Pérez. (John McDonnell /The Washington Place) Oliver Pérez pitched in the majors from 2002 until 2014 leading the last name on his t-shirt was technically demand. In Spanish, capital letters and names are supposititious to get dialect marks when called for, eve though multitude don’t e'er intromit them in practise.

Up a year into Pérez’s two-year tenure with the Diamondbacks, the team asked if he wanted the accent mark over the outset “e” in his cognomen — known as a tilde in Spanish — and he aforesaid he jumped at the luck. “Barely anyone has one,” he aforementioned. “You don’t see it oft.” And Pérez, a native of Mexico, is chastise. But Gonzalez, of Cuban descent but high-flown in Hialeah, Fla., said he doesn’t beguile it that way. “None of my old teammates in Oakland – I had Edgar Gonzalez, Carlos Gonzalez – and no one had it,” Gonzalez said.

A perusal of jerseys of Latin American players with distressed last names across the league shows that to be true. He asked Pérez if he cute it on his t-shirt — since he had it in Arizona and Houston end yr — and they added it late in give fostering, just onward the brace sapidity began.

Pérez said he didn’t sustenance if he had the emphasise mark or not — nor does he score his autographs with it — but laughed when asked roughly it. “But now they can’t cry me Perez,” he said, pronouncing his surname the way it would vocalism in English without the stress on the showtime “e”.