Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joel Peralta Gutiérrez (born March 23, 1976, in Bonao, Dominican Republic) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays. Peralta signed with the Oakland Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1996. They released him in 1998. He signed with the then-Anaheim Angels in 1999, and remained with the organization in the minor leagues, receiving a promotion to the major leagues in 2005.