Salvador Perez
Perez just wrapped his age-35 season still swinging a dangerous bat, remarkable for a catcher who's logged over 1,700 games behind the plate. His .264 career average undersells his value — that 107 OPS+ represents above-average offense at baseball's most demanding position.
The Venezuelan backstop peaked during the shortened 2020 season, slashing .333/.986 with an OPS+ of 133 that dwarfed his career norm. That performance capped a run where he collected five Silver Sluggers in six seasons, unusual hardware for any catcher not named Piazza or Bench.
At 36, durability becomes the story. Nine All-Star selections and five Gold Gloves tell you everything about his two-way excellence, but Father Time remains undefeated behind the dish.
| Date | AB | H | HR | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .211 |
| Jul 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .210 |
| Jul 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .209 |
| Jul 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .209 |
| Jul 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .210 |
| Jul 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .209 |
| Jul 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .212 |
| Jul 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .211 |
| Jul 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .209 |
| Jul 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .202 |
Career · Batting
15 seasons| Year | Team | G | AB | HR | RBI | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | — | 39 | 148 | 3 | 21 | — | — | — |
| 2012 | — | 76 | 289 | 11 | 39 | — | — | — |
| 2013 | — | 138 | 496 | 13 | 79 | — | — | — |
| 2014 | — | 150 | 578 | 17 | 70 | — | — | — |
| 2015 | — | 142 | 531 | 21 | 70 | — | — | — |
| 2016 | — | 139 | 514 | 22 | 64 | — | — | — |
| 2017 | — | 129 | 471 | 27 | 80 | — | — | — |
| 2018 | — | 129 | 510 | 27 | 80 | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | 37 | 150 | 11 | 32 | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | 161 | 620 | 48 | 121 | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | 114 | 445 | 23 | 76 | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | 140 | 538 | 23 | 80 | — | — | — |
| 2024 | — | 158 | 590 | 27 | 104 | — | — | — |
| 2025 | — | 155 | 597 | 30 | 100 | — | — | — |
| 2026 | — | 92 | 359 | 12 | 39 | — | — | — |
| Career | 1799 | 6836 | 315 | 1055 | — | — | — | |
Every ball this hitter has put in play — how hard it left the bat, and at what angle. The red field behind the dots shows how much damage that kind of contact does, league-wide: the darker the red, the better things go for the hitter.
The field — league-average xwOBA (what a batted ball is typically worth: 0.0 is a sure out, ~2.0 a sure home run) for every exit-velocity × launch-angle combination, measured from 1.3 million regular-season balls in play since 2015. The dark ridge — balls hit 105+ mph at 25–30° — is the barrel zone, where contact becomes near-automatic extra bases.
The dots — this hitter’s career regular-season balls in play, grouped to a fine grid; a bigger dot means more batted balls at that exact combination. Dots piled onto the red ridge are damage; dots low on the pale field are weak or mishit contact. Spring training and the postseason are excluded.
Matchups, projections, comps — grounded in Lahman, Retrosheet, and Statcast.