Oliver Bites?

Despite the title of this post, I do not believe that Oliver Perez is a bad pitcher. While he may not be on the "10 minute" fix regimen that Rick Peterson lieks to employ, I still believe that with a good off season and spring training with Peterson, he will be a quality middle to end of the rotation guy.

With all that said, the Mets website had this funny pic of him from last nights game...

That cant taste very good, huh?

And while I am not the definitive source on the rule book, I am pretty sure that this would be considered 'doctoring the ball'.