http://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/sp...nnouncers.htmlNear the end of Pérez’s career in the 1980s, he requested that his name be pronounced PAY-rez, closer to the Spanish way, instead of peh-REZ, which English speakers tend to say. Although Rose was not broadcasting Mets games yet, he heard about Pérez’s change and it forever changed his pronunciations of other Perezes.