MLB / Players

Salvador Perez

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 255 lb

BornMay 10, 1990 · Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

MLB debutAugust 10, 2011

Seasons14 (2011–2025)

Kansas City Royals 2011–2018; Kansas City Royals 2020–2025

Percentile snapshot

2025 season — qualified batters

155

638

60.6

597

82.4

6.3

141

53.5

89.4

78.2

RBI

100

89.4

6.3

125

47.9

90.8

.236

16.2

OBP

.284

3.5

SLG

.446

59.2

OPS

.729

34.5

wRC+

97.7

24.6

OPS+

100.8

27.5

wOBA

.309

18.3

sWAR

2.2

37.3

of 143 qualified 2025 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.5

46.4

OPS+

105.3

52.8

sWAR

34.4

97.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2011	39	158	148	20	49	8	2	3	21	7	20	0	0	.331	.361	.473	.834	128.8	127.3	.365	1.4
2012	76	305	289	38	87	16	0	11	39	12	27	0	0	.301	.328	.471	.798	113.2	115.7	.340	2.2
2013	138	526	496	48	145	25	3	13	79	21	63	0	0	.292	.323	.433	.757	105.0	106.1	.330	3.4
2014	150	606	578	57	150	28	2	17	70	22	85	1	0	.260	.289	.403	.692	90.4	93.1	.305	2.7
2015	142	553	531	52	138	25	0	21	70	13	82	1	0	.260	.280	.426	.706	83.9	88.9	.299	2.1
2016	139	546	514	57	127	28	2	22	64	22	119	0	0	.247	.288	.438	.725	88.8	91.8	.307	2.2
2017	129	498	471	57	126	24	1	27	80	17	95	1	0	.268	.297	.495	.792	101.9	105.3	.329	2.6
2018	129	544	510	52	120	23	0	27	80	17	108	1	1	.235	.274	.439	.713	88.3	90.9	.303	1.5
2020	37	156	150	22	50	12	0	11	32	3	36	1	0	.333	.353	.633	.986	158.9	158.9	.411	1.9
2021	161	665	620	88	169	24	0	48	121	28	170	1	0	.273	.316	.544	.859	124.6	126.9	.357	5.0
2022	114	473	445	48	113	23	1	23	76	18	109	0	0	.254	.292	.465	.757	106.1	108.5	.324	2.2
2023	140	578	538	59	137	21	0	23	80	19	135	0	0	.255	.292	.422	.714	85.8	91.3	.302	1.2
2024	158	651	590	58	160	28	0	27	104	44	129	0	0	.271	.330	.456	.786	119.3	122.5	.336	3.8
2025	155	638	597	54	141	35	0	30	100	28	125	0	0	.236	.284	.446	.729	97.7	100.8	.309	2.2
2026	144	599	554	48	125	23	1	19	72	23	114	1	0	.226	.270	.374	.643	—	—	—	—

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

1,707

6,897

485th-most career PA

6,477

406th-most career AB

710

1,712

474th-most career H

320

414th-most career 2B

303

162nd-most career HR

RBI

1,016

291st-most career RBI

271

1,303

169th-most career SO

.2643

OBP

.3014

SLG

.4575

418th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7589

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
2013-08-28	KC @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	4	11
2020-09-23	STL @ KC Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	10
2025-06-17	KC @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	10
2023-09-01	BOS @ KC Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	9
2018-08-15	TOR @ KC Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

5× Gold Glove5× Silver Slugger1× World Series MVP9× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.