Salvador Perez
C | Bats/Throws: R/R | 6' 3" 255LBS | Age: 33
PA AB R H HR SB AVG OBP SLG OPS
2021 665 620 88 169 48 1 .273 .316 .544 .860
2022 473 445 48 113 23 0 .254 .292 .465 .757
2023 580 538 59 137 23 0 .255 .292 .422 .714
12 Seasons 5,611 5,290 598 1,411 246 6 .267 .300 .459 .759
AVG HR SB OPS
2021 .273 48 1 .860
2022 .254 23 0 .757
2023 .255 23 0 .714
12 Seasons .267 246 6 .759
MLB Percentile Rankings
Hits Spray Chart

Statcast Batting Statistics

Season Age Pitches Batted
Balls
Barrels Barrel % Barrel/PA Exit
Velocity
Max EV Launch
Angle
Sweet
Spot %
XBA XSLG WOBA XWOBA XWOBACON HardHit% K% BB%
2015 25 1840 454 24 5.3 4.3 87.3 110.9 13.0 32.8 .265 .413 .300 .302 .347 32.6 14.8 2.4
2016 26 1875 397 25 6.3 4.6 88.8 112.7 18.9 29.5 .237 .397 .308 .290 .350 37.8 21.8 4.0
2017 27 1737 381 36 9.4 7.2 88.7 111.3 18.7 34.4 .278 .535 .329 .351 .422 38.9 19.1 3.4
2018 28 1926 407 44 10.8 8.1 91.3 112.1 18.0 35.4 .259 .481 .304 .336 .399 47.5 19.9 3.1
2020 30 563 115 16 13.9 10.3 91.0 110.4 14.2 41.7 .323 .626 .410 .409 .527 47.0 23.1 1.9
2021 31 2392 454 74 16.3 11.1 93.0 114.4 15.9 34.1 .276 .566 .359 .374 .487 56.2 25.6 4.2
2022 32 1700 339 38 11.2 8.0 91.4 112.5 17.8 34.8 .245 .473 .324 .326 .405 49.0 23.0 3.8
2023 33 2061 411 36 8.8 6.2 90.1 113.1 15.6 38.0 .268 .463 .302 .327 .410 44.0 23.3 3.3
Player 14094 2958 293 9.9 7.3 90.1 114.4 16.6 34.4 .264 .483 .322 .334 .409 43.8 21.3 3.4
MLB 6.9 4.7 88.4 122.4 12.2 33.1 .245 .406 .316 .315 .369 36.3 22.1 8.4
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.




Fastball: 4 Seam, 2 Seam, Cutter, Sinker. Offspeed: Split, Change, Fork, Screw. Breaking: Slider, Curve, Knuckle, Sweeper, Slurve, Other
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Batted Ball Profile

Season GB % FB % LD % PU % Pull % Straight % Oppo % Weak % Topped % Under % Flare/Burner % Solid % Barrel % Barrel/PA
2015 42.5 19.2 28.2 10.1 42.7 36.3 20.7 3.3 35.2 25.1 24.0 3.3 5.3 4.3
2016 35.8 28.2 21.2 14.9 43.6 36.5 19.9 2.5 27.2 33.8 23.7 6.0 6.3 4.6
2017 33.3 30.7 25.7 10.2 50.4 31.8 17.6 3.4 23.1 29.9 24.7 8.1 9.4 7.2
2018 35.9 31.0 25.1 8.1 44.2 36.1 19.7 1.0 26.3 28.5 24.3 8.6 10.8 8.1
2020 35.7 26.1 34.8 3.5 41.7 40.0 18.3 2.6 27.8 17.4 27.0 9.6 13.9 10.3
2021 37.4 33.0 23.6 5.9 42.7 35.0 22.2 2.9 25.6 22.5 24.2 8.6 16.3 11.1
2022 36.9 34.2 21.2 7.7 42.2 35.1 22.7 2.4 25.1 31.0 22.4 8.0 11.2 8.0
2023 36.0 30.2 26.3 7.5 39.7 36.3 24.1 3.4 23.8 28.2 25.8 9.7 8.8 6.2
Player 36.9 29.1 25.0 9.0 43.5 35.5 20.9 2.7 26.8 27.8 24.3 7.5 9.9 7.3
MLB 44.6 23.5 24.9 7.0 37.0 37.6 25.3 3.9 32.9 24.7 24.4 5.8 6.9 4.7
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Run Values by Pitch Type

Year Pitch Type Team RV/100 Run Value Pitches % PA BA SLG wOBA Whiff% K% PutAway % xBA xSLG xwOBA Hard Hit %
2023 4-Seam Fastball 0.0 0 546 26.5 144 .269 .477 .351 31.9 28.5 24.1 .253 .458 .335 48.4
2023 Slider -0.4 -2 463 22.5 129 .230 .377 .273 36.6 24.8 20.4 .239 .441 .304 35.9
2023 Sinker 1.6 5 317 15.4 94 .374 .516 .397 9.1 6.4 10.0 .369 .573 .409 47.1
2023 Changeup -0.8 -2 188 9.1 52 .224 .388 .304 28.8 17.3 15.3 .263 .440 .321 47.5
2023 Curveball -3.0 -5 180 8.7 45 .179 .179 .202 46.1 40.0 26.9 .189 .221 .225 30.4
2023 Sweeper -3.3 -5 154 7.5 46 .182 .341 .212 31.1 30.4 23.3 .228 .385 .256 37.5
2023 Cutter 0.4 1 152 7.4 41 .244 .537 .327 32.6 22.0 27.3 .332 .641 .407 53.1
2023 Split-Finger -0.9 0 52 2.5 21 .200 .450 .305 40.0 28.6 21.4 .242 .490 .325 57.1
2023 Slurve -5.8 -1 9 0.4 2 .000 .000 .000 33.3 0.0 0.0 .066 .089 .069 50.0
2022 4-Seam Fastball 2.8 13 480 28.2 145 .328 .634 .424 23.3 17.9 18.1 .285 .602 .405 60.6
2022 Slider 0.4 1 376 22.1 91 .258 .449 .323 38.5 28.6 24.8 .228 .416 .277 43.8
2022 Sinker 0.6 1 234 13.8 70 .277 .492 .367 22.0 5.7 8.7 .306 .557 .390 42.6
2022 Curveball 1.7 3 178 10.5 51 .191 .383 .314 40.9 39.2 29.4 .219 .454 .317 51.9
2022 Changeup -0.3 0 168 9.9 49 .191 .426 .311 34.2 20.4 16.1 .211 .373 .268 43.2
2022 Cutter -0.8 -1 162 9.5 37 .167 .222 .232 38.5 29.7 27.5 .214 .336 .251 36.0
2022 Sweeper -3.4 -3 86 5.1 23 .136 .136 .117 50.0 43.5 31.3 .107 .236 .147 46.2
2022 Split-Finger -2.0 0 16 0.9 5 .200 .200 .180 41.7 40.0 33.3 .040 .045 .038 33.3
2021 4-Seam Fastball 0.5 3 741 31.0 216 .255 .611 .374 30.0 26.9 23.7 .247 .611 .368 65.8
2021 Slider 1.7 10 571 23.9 140 .295 .500 .369 42.2 30.7 23.0 .286 .575 .382 48.9
2021 Sinker 1.9 6 308 12.9 89 .350 .613 .442 16.1 12.4 18.6 .353 .642 .443 52.9
2021 Changeup 0.4 1 279 11.7 82 .250 .434 .333 39.1 24.4 21.1 .261 .447 .330 53.6
2021 Curveball -0.2 0 217 9.1 55 .216 .353 .277 44.8 34.5 25.7 .245 .379 .299 50.0
2021 Cutter 0.8 1 168 7.0 46 .227 .477 .313 34.0 21.7 23.3 .284 .615 .389 52.9
2021 Split-Finger 3.2 2 51 2.1 14 .333 .833 .514 33.3 28.6 15.4 .440 .811 .553 62.5
2021 Sweeper 3.0 1 48 2.0 17 .333 .867 .518 34.6 23.5 18.2 .223 .369 .302 36.4
2021 Slurve -4.8 0 9 0.4 2 .000 .000 .000 33.3 50.0 33.3 .167 .335 .204 100.0
2020 Slider 0.4 1 156 27.7 40 .162 .351 .296 32.6 32.5 23.6 .202 .422 .295 33.3
2020 4-Seam Fastball 4.8 7 156 27.7 39 .447 1.000 .622 26.9 23.1 20.9 .347 .831 .490 58.6
2020 Sinker 2.3 2 84 14.9 22 .450 .850 .557 16.7 13.6 13.6 .443 .846 .554 55.6
2020 Curveball 1.3 1 62 11.0 20 .300 .450 .323 31.3 20.0 16.0 .365 .611 .409 37.5
2020 Changeup 1.7 1 56 9.9 20 .300 .550 .360 22.5 20.0 16.7 .312 .567 .372 50.0
2020 Cutter 3.1 1 35 6.2 10 .400 .400 .450 32.0 20.0 18.2 .395 .472 .379 37.5
2020 Slurve -6.3 0 7 1.2 1 .000 .000 .000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .109 .109 .100 0.0
2020 Split-Finger 14.6 1 6 1.1 4 .500 .750 .538 20.0 25.0 100.0 .380 .447 .364 66.7
2020 Sweeper 2.7 0 1 0.2 -- -- -- -- -- 0.0 -- -- -- --
2018 4-Seam Fastball 0.7 4 553 28.7 142 .289 .600 .396 18.4 17.6 15.3 .307 .615 .402 58.2
2018 Slider -1.7 -7 407 21.1 114 .167 .296 .231 36.6 24.6 19.6 .191 .304 .238 30.0
2018 Sinker 0.3 1 368 19.1 121 .287 .478 .364 13.4 10.7 13.7 .318 .601 .406 55.9
2018 Curveball -2.3 -5 204 10.6 48 .159 .364 .215 31.6 37.5 27.7 .135 .285 .202 37.9
2018 Changeup -0.7 -1 170 8.8 51 .204 .367 .261 29.4 21.6 18.6 .270 .408 .309 42.1
2018 Cutter 1.9 3 142 7.4 42 .314 .486 .390 21.7 16.7 15.2 .321 .589 .432 53.3
2018 Sweeper -5.8 -2 30 1.6 8 .000 .000 .113 0.0 12.5 7.1 .105 .166 .116 14.3
2018 Split-Finger 6.9 2 22 1.1 6 .200 .800 .450 33.3 50.0 18.8 .181 .700 .415 100.0
2018 Slurve -3.1 -1 22 1.1 9 .125 .125 .178 9.1 0.0 0.0 .161 .241 .229 25.0
2017 4-Seam Fastball 1.7 8 463 26.7 130 .309 .618 .398 16.1 16.9 16.7 .296 .654 .403 44.1
2017 Slider -2.7 -10 371 21.4 90 .184 .276 .210 27.5 28.9 20.6 .199 .289 .217 22.6
2017 Sinker -1.6 -5 343 19.7 101 .235 .531 .330 11.3 12.9 16.3 .319 .659 .413 54.1
2017 Curveball -2.3 -5 217 12.5 64 .177 .290 .205 32.4 25.0 20.8 .196 .304 .219 21.3
2017 Changeup 4.3 8 186 10.7 64 .386 .684 .461 22.0 15.6 16.9 .368 .689 .456 42.9
2017 Cutter 1.7 2 97 5.6 23 .429 .476 .428 29.3 21.7 19.2 .302 .399 .335 31.3
2017 Split-Finger 6.3 2 31 1.8 8 .375 .625 .425 15.8 12.5 7.7 .266 .588 .349 42.9
2017 Slurve -2.3 0 17 1.0 8 .250 .375 .269 30.0 25.0 33.3 .211 .493 .291 16.7
2017 Sweeper 13.7 1 5 0.3 2 .500 2.000 1.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 .617 2.127 1.100 100.0
2017 Screwball -8.8 0 2 0.1 1 .000 .000 .000 50.0 0.0 0.0 .027 .032 .028 0.0
! Note: Years are in reverse order.
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Swing/Take

Runs
Year Team PA Pitches Heart Shadow Chase Waste All
2011 158 564 0 3 4 2 10
2012 302 976 -10 4 11 3 8
2013 522 1,752 -3 12 4 6 20
2014 664 2,230 -8 -14 6 4 -13
2015 613 2,076 11 -15 -3 5 -2
2016 543 1,863 -1 -17 4 7 -7
2017 492 1,734 12 -19 2 5 0
2018 541 1,919 -6 -3 -4 8 -6
2020 156 563 3 8 1 2 13
2021 661 2,392 19 -1 -5 10 24
2022 471 1,700 10 -9 6 8 14
2023 574 2,061 -5 -11 -2 9 -9
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Plate Discipline

Season Pitches Zone % Zone Swing % Zone Contact % Chase % Chase Contact % Edge % 1st Pitch Swing % Swing % Whiff % Meatball % Meatball Swing %
2015 1,840 46.9 67.7 90.1 41.7 70.3 41.7 28.9 53.9 18.0 7.5 68.1
2016 1,875 46.1 69.1 86.3 42.6 63.0 41.1 36.1 54.8 23.4 6.7 71.4
2017 1,737 43.3 75.4 88.5 46.0 67.3 42.0 38.8 58.8 20.9 6.2 79.6
2018 1,926 44.0 73.0 87.7 44.2 61.7 39.9 40.8 57.0 23.8 7.1 75.2
2020 563 42.8 79.3 83.8 43.5 58.6 40.1 39.7 58.8 26.9 6.6 73.0
2021 2,392 41.8 78.6 79.3 44.7 50.0 40.0 43.7 58.9 33.7 6.1 83.6
2022 1,700 41.9 77.1 77.8 43.2 56.0 39.2 37.8 57.4 31.8 5.2 87.5
2023 2,061 43.2 77.5 80.3 47.0 56.5 37.1 40.4 60.2 30.2 7.2 74.5
Player 14,094 43.8 74.3 84.0 44.2 59.9 40.1 38.3 57.4 26.5 6.6 76.4
MLB 48.6 67.0 82.0 28.5 58.0 42.6 29.6 47.1 24.8 7.3 76.1
! Note: All figures in this table cover the period 2015-present.

Percentile Rankings

Year xwOBA xBA xSLG xISO xOBP Brl Brl% EV Max EV Hard
Hit%
K% BB% Whiff% Chase
Rate
Speed OAA Arm
Strength
2015 37 69 58 51 17 64 51 29 83 35 79 1 72 3 25
2016 15 21 35 45 5 52 46 45 89 55 34 5 43 1 32
2017 75 81 92 91 27 79 75 66 83 69 58 1 63 1 24
2018 62 64 83 83 20 88 82 89 85 92 56 1 53 1 18
2020 96 98 98 95 66 78 89 82 75 85 45 1 45 1 15
2021 87 82 94 95 44 99 93 94 93 99 22 2 6 1 30
2022 63 46 88 93 12 75 79 88 86 91 40 3 12 1 10
2023 53 73 76 68 26 67 53 65 85 67 38 1 20 1 3
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Expected Home Runs

Year Team Avg HR Trot Actual HR xHR HR-xHR Doubters Mostly Gone No Doubters No Doubter %
2016 25.7 22 21.8 0 9 15 11 50.0
2017 25.6 27 29.4 -2 9 14 19 70.4
2018 26.8 27 29.1 -2 11 21 14 51.9
2020 25.0 11 12.3 -1 3 7 7 63.6
2021 26.6 48 51.2 -3 5 31 28 58.3
2022 26.7 23 23.0 0 7 16 9 39.1
2023 27.9 23 26.4 -3 3 21 11 47.8
Player 26.5 181 193.3 -12 47 125 99 54.7

Expected Home Runs by Park

Year HR
2016 22 25 20 21 22 18 25 22 18 20 21 27 20 20 18 21 15 16 22 24 21 20 30 26 21 20 21 28 26 25 21
2017 27 30 27 29 32 29 34 26 27 24 29 33 30 28 29 32 27 25 30 30 27 30 34 32 26 27 29 37 32 31 25
2018 27 34 23 30 31 27 33 28 26 22 27 33 32 28 28 30 28 27 29 34 32 27 37 32 24 23 27 30 35 30 26
2020 11 13 13 11 12 13 12 13 11 10 11 13 16 11 13 12 14 14 12 13 15 13 16 11 10 9 12 10 16 11 10
2021 48 58 48 48 52 50 58 55 39 42 44 55 52 45 53 59 50 49 57 52 53 53 58 55 50 43 56 54 52 48 49
2022 23 18 22 20 25 23 25 21 17 21 23 20 23 23 25 26 22 23 24 25 23 25 26 24 18 22 27 27 25 24 24
2023 23 24 20 21 29 23 30 22 25 22 25 24 23 24 30 28 28 23 32 30 26 30 33 32 23 25 29 28 27 30 26
Player 181 202 173 180 203 183 217 187 163 161 180 205 196 179 196 208 184 177 206 208 197 198 234 212 172 169 201 214 213 199 181
! Note: This tells how many of this player's home runs would have been out of other stadiums. This accounts for different wall heights, distances and environmental effects. For these purposes, the 2020 Blue Jays home field was still Rogers Centre, not Sahlen Field.
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Year to Year Changes

Metric 2015 2016 +/-   2017 +/-   2018 +/-   2019 +/-   2020 +/-   2021 +/-   2022 +/-   2023 +/-  
Exit Velocity 87.3 88.8 1.5 88.7 -0.1 -- 2.6 -- -- 91.0 -- 93.0 2.0 91.4 -1.6 90.1 -1.3
Launch Angle 13.0 18.9 5.9 18.7 -0.2 -- -0.7 -- -- 14.2 -- 15.9 1.7 17.8 1.9 15.6 -2.2
Barrel % 5.3 6.3 1.0 9.4 3.1 -- 1.4 -- -- 13.9 -- 16.3 2.4 11.2 -5.1 8.8 -2.4
Hard Hit % 32.6 37.8 5.2 38.9 1.1 -- 8.6 -- -- 47.0 -- 56.2 9.2 49.0 -7.2 44.0 -5.0
Sweet Spot % 32.8 29.5 -3.3 34.4 4.9 -- 1.0 -- -- 41.7 -- 34.1 -7.6 34.8 0.7 38.0 3.2
xBA .265 .237 -0.028 .278 0.041 -- -0.019 -- -- .323 -- .276 -0.047 .245 -0.031 .268 0.023
BA .260 .247 -0.013 .268 0.021 -- -0.033 -- -- .333 -- .273 -0.060 .254 -0.019 .255 0.001
xwOBA .302 .290 -0.012 .351 0.061 -- -0.015 -- -- .409 -- .374 -0.035 .326 -0.048 .327 0.001
wOBA .300 .308 0.008 .329 0.021 -- -0.025 -- -- .410 -- .359 -0.051 .324 -0.035 .302 -0.022
xSLG .414 .397 -0.017 .535 0.138 -- -0.054 -- -- .626 -- .566 -0.060 .473 -0.093 .463 -0.010
SLG .426 .438 0.012 .495 0.057 -- -0.056 -- -- .633 -- .544 -0.089 .465 -0.079 .422 -0.043
K% 14.8 21.8 7.0 19.1 -2.7 -- 0.8 -- -- 23.1 -- 25.6 2.5 23.0 -2.6 23.3 0.3
BB% 2.4 4.0 1.6 3.4 -0.6 -- -0.3 -- -- 1.9 -- 4.2 2.3 3.8 -0.4 3.3 -0.5
Swing % 53.9 54.8 0.9 58.8 4.0 -- -1.8 -- -- 58.8 -- 58.9 0.1 57.4 -1.5 60.2 2.8
Whiff% 18.0 23.4 5.4 20.9 -2.5 -- 2.9 -- -- 26.9 -- 33.7 6.8 31.8 -1.9 30.2 -1.6
In Zone % 46.9 46.1 -0.8 43.3 -2.8 -- 0.7 -- -- 42.8 -- 41.8 -1.0 41.9 0.1 43.2 1.3
Out of Zone % 53.1 53.9 0.8 56.7 2.8 -- -0.7 -- -- 57.2 -- 58.2 1.0 58.1 -0.1 56.8 -1.3
Out of Zone Swing % 41.7 42.6 0.9 46.0 3.4 -- -1.8 -- -- 43.5 -- 44.7 1.2 43.2 -1.5 47.0 3.8
First Pitch Swing % 28.9 36.1 7.2 38.8 2.7 -- 2.0 -- -- 39.7 -- 43.7 4.0 37.8 -5.9 40.4 2.6
First Pitch Strike % 60.6 66.8 6.2 63.6 -3.2 -- 3.5 -- -- 65.4 -- 64.9 -0.5 60.7 -4.2 64.0 3.3
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Statcast Fielder Positioning

wOBA
SeasonAlignment TypeBat SidePAShifts/Shades%No Shift/ShadeShift/Shade
2016 Shifts R 537 30 5.6 .312 .219
2017 Shifts R 495 65 13.1 .310 .453
2018 Shifts R 544 148 27.2 .316 .271
2020 Shifts R 155 106 68.4 .487 .371
2021 Shifts R 657 400 60.9 .366 .356
2022 Shifts R 471 370 78.6 .364 .313
2023 Shades R 573 75 13.1 .307 .244
! Note: Shifts are through the 2022 season, Shaded starting from the 2023 season, Shift: three or more infielders are on the same side of second base, Shade: positioned outside of their typical responsible slices of the field.
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Pitch Tempo

Bases EmptyRunners On Base
SeasonTeamPitchesTempoFast %Slow %PitchesTempoFast %Slow %
2011 143 14.0 57.3% 0.7% 76 21.0 9.2% 11.8%
2012 285 14.1 57.5% 1.1% 147 20.0 3.4% 6.1%
2013 509 14.5 57.4% 2.0% 266 20.8 5.6% 6.8%
2014 485 15.8 40.4% 2.7% 298 21.4 3.7% 8.4%
2015 461 17.4 32.8% 3.7% 288 23.1 7.3% 17.4%
2016 491 17.2 29.7% 4.5% 248 23.3 10.1% 21.8%
2017 358 16.9 26.3% 3.6% 260 22.8 0.8% 9.6%
2018 448 16.9 31.5% 2.2% 254 22.0 0.8% 9.4%
2020 125 18.5 24.0% 3.2% 62 23.3 1.6% 12.9%
2021 542 18.5 17.7% 3.3% 283 23.7 0.0% 13.1%
2022 422 17.4 21.8% 4.0% 191 23.1 0.5% 12.6%
2023 462 15.3 47.0% 0.9% 219 18.9 6.4% 0.0%
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Statcast Rankings