According to the New York Times, there is a book circulating that has been authored by Scott Boras, super agent for many clients, including free agent pitcher Oliver Perez. Boras' book details Perez' career, with chapters titled, “Perez Turns Corner in 2006,” “Perez Is One of Baseball’s Top 5 Left-Handed Starting Pitchers,” “A Rare Young Left-Handed Starting Pitcher Available on the Free-Agent Market,” “Big-Game Ollie,” and “Durable Ollie.”

Tom Gordon, currently a pitcher with the World Champion Philadelphia Phillies, had a book written about him back in 1999, but by a more respected author, Stephen King. That book was pure fiction, and based upon some of the chapter titles in Perez' book - that appears to be a work of fiction also.

I am not a big Ollie Perez fan, and have written that any team which signs him to a big contract is crazy. In fact, Perez is crazy, and needs to improve his mound presence if he intends to lasso all that talent he supposedly has. One of the keys in pitching is having the intelligence to adjust during a game, and to not let little things bother you which can turn one or two run innings into big innings against you.  

You can definitely say, though, that Boras works hard for his clients. I can't imagine Andy Pettitte's agent, Randy Hendricks, doing the same for another "...available free agent lefty starter." Then again, if Oliver Perez actually pitched well more consistently, Boras probably wouldn't NEED to write the Perez book.

Baseballreference.com compares Perez at age 26 to such pitchers as Mark Langston, Frank Viola, Mark Langston, Bobby Witt, Livan Hernandez, Tom Underwood, Sidney Ponson, Randy Wolf, Ryan Dempster, Melido Perez and Mike Moore - all decent pitchers at the time. 

These comparisons to Perez are up to his current age, but shows nothing for the future. Of those pitchers listed, only Viola, Langston and Dempster has had any real success. Perez' head needs to improve if he is going to end up like Langston, Viola and Dempster, rather than finishing his career like Tom Underwood, Melido Perez and Sidney Ponson.

Most of the above comparison guys are middle of the rotation types. Is a middle of rotation guy worth $12-14 million per season?

That is the big question Omar Minaya needs to ask himself.