MLB · DH · Kansas City Royals
Salvador Perez
B/T R/R · 6' 2" · 255 lb · born Valencia, Venezuela · age 36 · played DH 65, C 44, 1B 21 · MLB debut 2011-08-10
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 12 G · .286 AVG · 1 HR · 8 RBI · .743 OPS
544 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Salvador Perez, 36, is the veteran Valencia, Venezuela, catcher — now DHing — with 320 home runs and 1,075 RBI across 1,830 games, and he's still producing: .316 with 8 RBI over his last 11.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
We wrote about Perez here — The Buzz July 26, 2026
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 382 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95106.763
- Deserved (xVal)0.37955
- Got (aVal)0.31819
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.05392
today · 30 days ago, against the 340 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
Under contractA 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
- $10.45M
- Tax hit
- $11.32M
- Service time
- 14 yr 50 d
- Guaranteed
- $25M
The deal 2 years $25M (2026–2027), with an opt-out — $12.5M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 2 y/$25M (26-27)* · agent Beverly Hills SC · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2027 | 2028 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash | $10.3M | Free agent |
| Tax hit | $11.3M | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Kansas City Royals.
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
- $11.3M
- Guaranteed
- $25.0M
- Term
- 2 yrs
- His class
- Extension
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $9.0M | $9.0M |
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.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
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.
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The Bureau on Salvador Perez
The scouting press, in their own words
Reid Detmers strikes out Bobby Witt Jr., Jac Caglionone and Salvador Perez - all swinging - in the seventh. 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 10 K for Detmers. He's thrown just 75 pitches. Angels 0, Royals 0, mid 7.
Umpire favor
-0.0 net runs over 32 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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