Perez\u2019s deal includes a $7 million signing bonus and deferred money, according to MLB.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSalvy is a Royals legend and one of the most important players this franchise has ever had,\u201d Royals general manager J.J. Picollo said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cWe had the option for next year, but everyone knew we wanted to make sure his legacy with us continued longer than that. We appreciate Salvy\u2019s commitment to the Royals, and we\u2019re just as excited as our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perez\u2019s 2026 club option had been worth $13.5 million, which included a $2 million buyout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Salvador Perez of the Kansas City Royals watches the flight of the ball on a three-run double during the ninth inning against the Los Angeles Angels at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on September 25, 2025 in Anaheim, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old has spent his entire 15-year MLB career with the Royals and was made captain in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perez has been a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner during the course of his career.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He helped the Royals win the World Series in 2015, defeating the Mets in five games, and Perez was named World Series MVP that year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perez has hit .264\/.301\/.457 with 1,016 RBIs during his time in the major leagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Royals catcher is second all-time in franchise history in home runs (303), second in RBIs (1,106), third in extra-base hits (634), sixth in hits (1,712) and seventh in games (1,707).\u00a0<\/p>\n
He appeared in 155 games during the 2025 season and hit 30 home runs \u2013 the ninth consecutive full season with at least 20 homers \u2014 while posting a batting average of .284.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Royals are coming off a 2025 season in which they finished 82-80 following a year they made a surprise appearance in the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salvador Perez is staying in Kansas City.\u00a0 The Royals catcher signed a two-year contract extension that takes the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,474,462,40120,3999,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-263113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-kansas-city-royals","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-free-agency","13":"tag-salvador-perez","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263113","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=263113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}