Salvador Perez DVOA, Advanced Stats, & Fantasy Rankings

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez clubbed his fourth home run of the year in the team's 7-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday. The 397-foot, two-run bomb to left field off Reds right-hander Nick Martinez was the lone hit for Perez, who finished 1-for-3. He has gotten off to a brutal start this year, but has shown signs of snapping out of his funk in the past few days. The 35-year-old is in the middle of a 6-for-16 stretch in which he has hit two homers and upped his OPS from .566 to .622. He'll attempt to build on his recent success Tuesday against a familiar face, Reds righty Brady Singer. Perez caught Singer during the hurler's stint with the Royals from 2020-24.

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez (illness) is feeling better on Saturday and is back in the starting lineup against the division-rival Minnesota Twins and right-hander Zebby Matthews at Target Field, serving as the designated hitter and batting cleanup for the Royals. Freddy Fermin is doing the catching again and is in the eight-hole. Perez was under the weather and didn't start in Friday's game, but he's back in there a day later and will look to get going after a slow start in 2025. The 35-year-old nine-time All-Star and five-time Silver Slugger winner is batting just .223/.258/.346 on the year with a .603 OPS, three home runs, 23 RBI and 10 runs scored in 188 at-bats. He's hit just .205 in 76 trips to the plate in May as well. Perez has only five career at-bats against Matthews and is searching for his first hit against him.

The Kansas City Royals scratched catcher/first baseman Salvador Perez (illness) from the starting lineup on Friday at Target Field against the division-rival Minnesota Twins in the series opener due to an illness, according to MLB.com's Anne Rogers. With Perez under the weather, Freddy Fermin will catch left-hander Noah Cameron and will hit seventh in the batting order against Twins right-hander Pablo Lopez. The 35-year-old Perez should be able to return to the lineup against the Twins by the end of the weekend series on Sunday. The nine-time All-Star and five-time Silver Slugger winner has shown signs of his age so far in 2025 with a weak slash line of .223/.258/.346 while adding only three home runs, 23 RBI and 10 runs scored in his 188 at-bats. Fermin hasn't been any better, going 21-for-89 (.236) with just one long ball and six RBI on the season. He has never faced Lopez in his career.