{"id":121856,"date":"2025-09-05T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121856\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:20:08","slug":"diamondbacks-all-star-ranked-among-mlbs-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121856\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks’ All-Star Ranked Among MLB’s Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks are well aware of how important All-Star franchise shortstop Geraldo Perdomo is to the organization, but national outlets are beginning to take notice.<\/p>\n

Perdomo has been one of the most crucial pieces of a Diamondbacks offense that has continued to keep Arizona competitive despite its horde of pitching injuries. He’s played good defense at a premium infield position, as well.<\/p>\n

There’s even a case to be made that Perdomo could be deserving of some National League MVP votes, as impossible as it will ultimately be to overtake Shohei Ohtani for the award.<\/p>\n

You can read Perdomo’s full MVP case below, presented and broken down by Diamondbacks On SI’s Jack Sommers.<\/p>\n

Related Content: Why D-backs Geraldo Perdomo is NL MVP Candidate<\/a><\/p>\n

But Perdomo hasn’t just been valuable by Diamondbacks standards. A recent article by Bleacher Report’s Joel Reuter ranked all 30 MLB shortstops, and Perdomo was positioned near the very top, next to MLB’s most elite.<\/p>\n

Reuter placed Perdomo third in all of MLB, only below star shortstops Bobby Witt Jr. of the Kansas City Royals and Trea Turner of the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Reuter had to say about Arizona’s franchise stud:<\/p>\n

“An elite [13.2] percent walk rate and a [.381] on-base percentage that ranks seventh among all qualified hitters has helped take Geraldo Perdomo’s game to another level in 2025.<\/p>\n

“He has career highs in virtually every offensive category, and he has recorded far more walks (82) than strikeouts (70) while also providing quality defense at shortstop. The 25-year-old is putting together the best season by a shortstop in D-backs history here in 2025,” Reuter wrote.<\/p>\n

Diamondbacks fans need no reminder. But Perdomo is emerging as a true star in MLB, beyond the horizon of team-specific coverage.<\/p>\n

Perdomo has always been an on-base machine, but he’s also found his power stroke, with 16 homers in the 2025 season \u2014 and he’s been doing it while dealing with a persistent bone bruise in his hand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite being just 25 years old, he’s Arizona’s de facto captain, and the player manager Torey Lovullo not only turns to, but also holds to the highest standards.<\/p>\n

“We look at him as somebody that is a core player on this team and a true Diamondback,” Lovullo said.<\/p>\n

“The fact that he’s able to fight through [the injury] is a lot of mental toughness, ultimately is what it comes down to, and a desire to help his team win a baseball game.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks are well aware of how important All-Star franchise shortstop Geraldo Perdomo is to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-121856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}