Salvador Perez is a baseball player playing for Kansas City Royals as a catcher. Perez has been with the Royals since 2007 in the minor leagues. In 2011, he was called up to a major and has remained with the team since winning the World Series Most Valuable Player award in 2015 after the Royals beat the New York Mets to win the this year’s World Series. Additionally, the Venezuelan player has also won the MLB All-Star six times and the Gold Glove Awards four times. Learn about the other things he gained in his family life from diamonds, as well as his finances and other interesting facts.
Biography, Age
Salvador was born in Valencia, Carabobo,Venezuela on May 10, 1990 as Salvador Johan Pérez Diaz. He was raised alone by his mother Yilda Diaz after his father left home when he was just four years old and never returned. When Perez was eight, he and his mother moved in with his maternal grandmother, Carmen de Diaz.
To support himself, his son and his mother, Yildacakes, flan and lasagna prepared and sold; and to keep her son occupied, she enrolled Salvador in a baseball school in Valencia since he was six years old. He has demonstrated his ability to catch, throw and hit balls. His skills were developed in school and at the age of fourteen he decided to play baseball professionally as a catcher. Growing up, he played with and against current MLB player and fellow countryman José Altuve.
Career
At the age of sixteen, he was signed by the Kansas City Royals for $65,000. The following season (2007), he began his minor league career with the Arizona Rookie League. In August 2011 Salvador Perez was promoted to the major league and in his first game as an MLB player he recorded his first hit, landed 2 baserunners and caught 5 popups – which remained two unusual events for the team this season.
In the same month (August), Perez recorded his first home run against Max Scherzer, in that game he was only a triple away from hitting for the cycle. At the end of his rookie season, he played a total of thirty-nine games and recorded .331 with 3 HRs and twenty-one runs.
In 2012, he signed a 5-year contract extension with the team worth $7 million. Despite a torn meniscus in his left knee during a spring training game, Perez still played seventy-nine games that year and finished the season with 301 hits, 11 homers, and 39 RBIs. The following year, he played 138 games with a .292 average, 13 home runs and 79 RBIs.
After a very impressive 2014 season where he recorded more starts than any other catcher in the league, Perez was named to the 2015 All-Star Game, which was his third All-Star appearance. In the same season, he hit .364 in the 2015 World Series, helping the Royals win five games and later emerge as winners of the 2015 World Series. Salvador Perez was unanimously named the most valuable player of the World Series this season, making him the first receiver to win the award since 1992 and the second Venezuelan-born player to be named MVP. The same year, he won the Gold Glove Award for the third consecutive time.
The following year (2016), Perez signed another contract extension with the franchise, which will keep him on the team until 2021. In 2016, he won his fifth All-Star Game title as a catcher of departure for the American League and his 4th Gold Glove Award. He finished the season with twenty-two homers, which was more than any other American League catcher. In 2018, he was named MLB All-Star
His salary
Salvador Perez signed (2012) a 5-year contract extension with the team worth $7 million, the contract including 3 club options covering his pre-referee seasons.
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With the extension of the contract, his salary in 2012 was 0.75 million dollars, 1 million dollars in 2013, in 2014 he earned 1.5 million dollars, 1.75 million dollars in 2015 and 2 million in 2016, $3.75 million in 2017, and $5 million in 2018. He will earn $6 million in 2019.
Salvador Perez – married, wife, son, family
The royal faithful is not married but he has a girlfriend named Marig Ruiz. The player has two sons, Salvador Jr. and Johan Salvador Perez, whom he welcomed with his girlfriend in 2017.
His height and measurements
The Royals receiver is 1.92m (6ft 3in) tall and weighs 111kg (245lbs). Details of his other measurements have yet to be confirmed.
