{"id":679351,"date":"2026-04-19T20:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679351\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:20:20","slug":"royals-news-salvador-perez-matt-quatraro-clear-mental-breather-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/679351\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals news: Salvador Perez, Matt Quatraro clear ‘mental breather’ mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Royals<\/a> catcher Salvador Perez made his opinion known<\/a> after manager Matt Quatraro gave him a day off on Saturday. But now both manager and player appear to be on the same page.<\/p>\n

Quatraro specifically said Perez needed a, \u201cmental breather,\u201d which the catcher disagreed with. In the end, it seems to be a misunderstanding from both sides<\/a> and a situation each party is looking to get past, via Anne Rogers of MLB.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m good, my family\u2019s good, everybody\u2019s good,\u201d Perez said. \u201cI got reached out [to by] a lot of people yesterday after the game, and they sent me what [Quatraro] said. I don\u2019t have any problem with [Quatraro]. We talked today. I know people were surprised I didn\u2019t play yesterday, but everybody has an off-day in the big leagues. You know, it\u2019s kind of hard to play 162 games, especially behind the home plate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a good spot,\u201d Quatraro said. \u201cI think what stands out to me, the \u2018mental breather,\u2019 was, from my perspective, telling him the night before he wasn\u2019t playing. So he can take some off his plate preparing for our starting pitcher and the game plan, the opposing starting pitcher. And just being a player every day, there\u2019s a tremendous amount that goes into that for a guy like him. I think that\u2019s where that became a little bit misconstrued.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perez, now 36-years-old, is in his 15th season with the Royals. He is bound to get days off, especially with top prospect Carter Jensen now at the major league level<\/a>. However, it was the verbiage Quatraro used that caused a rift. The manager will now know how best to have Perez take on off day.<\/p>\n

Through his first 20 games in 2026, Perez is hitting .160 with three home runs and six RBIs. After his\u00a0mental breather,\u00a0 the catcher will now have an opportunity to improve his numbers when he bats fourth for the Royals against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez made his opinion known after manager Matt Quatraro gave him a day off on Saturday. But now both manager and player appear to be on the same page. Quatraro specifically said Perez needed a, \u201cmental breather,\u201d which the catcher disagreed with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez made his opinion known after manager Matt Quatraro gave him a day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252,373],"class_list":{"0":"post-679351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals","16":"tag-salvador-perez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679351","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=679351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}