AAA · CF · Charlotte Knights (CWS)
Junior Perez
B/T R/R · 6' 0" · 165 lb · born San Cristobal, Dominican Republic · age 25 · played CF 75, RF 48, LF 41, DH 6 · MLB debut 2026-06-18
Last 14 days (through 2026-08-27): 9 G · .273 AVG · 1 HR · 5 RBI · .806 OPS
Reassigned to Minors (roster status, as of )
100 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
The card rack
FlagshipJunior Perez [Fuchsia Pink Mojo Refractor] #BCP-180 · 2022 Bowman Chrome Prospects · 30 recent sales 7N ▼1%
His flagship is his rookie — one card, one market.
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Scout’s note
The .171 average says one thing; the contact quality says another. Perez's EV95 of 108.215 puts him in the 88th percentile of our 439 tracked AAA bats, above the 105.0 median, and his contact grades at 0.39 on the MLB value grid. The gap between the line and the contact is pre-consensus: the tools are ahead of the market. Out of San Cristobal, the 25-year-old debuted June 18 with two of his three career homers in the last 14 days.
Current signals
The read: Perez's EV95 of 108.2 sits in the 88th percentile of the 453 AAA bats we track (median 105.0), and on the MLB value grid his contact grades at 0.38. The tools are ahead of the market — that's what pre-consensus means.
- EV95 (mph)
- 108.185
- xVal (MLB grid)
- 0.3819
- Age
- 25
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.26Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.26M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
Collect Junior Perez
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Umpire favor
-0.5 net runs over 3 graded games — the zone cost him more than it gave, on balance.
The line
| Year | Team | Lvl | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Stockton Ports | A | 95 | 329 | 54 | 68 | 8 | 34 | 24 | 51 | 145 | .207 | .676 |
| 2022 | Stockton Ports | A | 116 | 398 | 74 | 99 | 15 | 62 | 32 | 70 | 148 | .249 | .788 |
| 2023 | Lansing Lugnuts | A+ | 117 | 434 | 67 | 103 | 12 | 45 | 41 | 51 | 150 | .237 | .712 |
| 2024 | Midland RockHounds | AA | 97 | 341 | 50 | 75 | 8 | 52 | 28 | 42 | 138 | .220 | .676 |
| 2025 | Midland RockHounds | AA | 95 | 339 | 50 | 68 | 14 | 53 | 16 | 57 | 116 | .201 | .716 |
| 2025 | Las Vegas Aviators | AAA | 42 | 151 | 37 | 45 | 12 | 34 | 11 | 30 | 49 | .298 | 1.054 |
| 2026 | Las Vegas Aviators | AAA | 36 | 138 | 23 | 29 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 13 | 51 | .210 | .657 |
| 2026 | Charlotte Knights | AAA | 37 | 132 | 26 | 30 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 19 | 60 | .227 | .744 |
| 2026 | Total | AAA | 73 | 270 | 49 | 59 | 9 | 32 | 15 | 32 | 111 | .219 | .700 |
| 2026 | Chicago White Sox | MLB | 22 | 35 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 14 | .171 | .623 |
| MLB CAREER | 22 | 35 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 14 | .171 | .623 | ||
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