{"id":416718,"date":"2025-11-05T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/416718\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:51:19","slug":"kansas-city-royals-extend-catcher-salvador-perez-on-two-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/416718\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals extend catcher Salvador Perez on two-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> and catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/salvador-perez\/392995\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/salvador-perez\/392995\" target=\"_blank\">Salvador Perez<\/a> have reached a two-year contract extension, it was announced Tuesday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal takes him through 2027. Perez originally had a $13.5 million team option for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perez has spent his entire 14-year MLB career in Kansas City after debuting during the 2011 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The veteran catcher was instrumental in the Royals back-to-back World Series appearances in 2014 and 2015, earning the 2015 Series MVP when the Royals defeated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-mets\/245\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> for their first championship in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old provided power from behind the plate this past season, hitting 30 home runs and driving in 100 runs in 155 games while slashing .236\/.284\/.446 in 155 games. He caught in 92 of those games and played first base in an additional 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perez is a nine-time All-Star, a five-time Gold Glove Award winner and a five-time Silver Slugger recipient. He ranks sixth all-time in Royals franchise history in hits (1,712) and is only 14 home runs behind the legendary George Brett for the Royals\u2019 all-time lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas City Royals and catcher Salvador Perez have reached a two-year contract extension, it was announced Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[30173,5,936,2123,55,58437,2596,2595,4,252,58438],"class_list":{"0":"post-416718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-kansas","11":"tag-kansas-city","12":"tag-kansas-city-royals","13":"tag-kansas-city-royals-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-231","14":"tag-kansascity","15":"tag-kansascityroyals","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-royals","18":"tag-salvador-perez-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-392995"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115496949842723642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}