The Miami Marlins are expected to send Eury Perez to the mound on Monday night against the Cincinnati Reds.

"We had this fairly mapped out," general manager Kim Ng said. "I talked about him doing a combo of workouts and full-body workouts, bullpens, getting him back into competition, which we have. He's had several starts the last couple of weeks. We just had it mapped out. Like I said earlier, we wanted to give him a little breather, which we've done. We just felt like this was the time."

Miami had optioned Perez to Double-A Pensacola on July 7 to monitor his workload after he had surpassed his career high in innings between the Majors (53 1/3) and Minors (36 2/3). 

The Marlins originally called Perez up on May 12 ahead of schedule due to necessity, with starters Johnny Cueto and Trevor Rogers on the injured list.