Batting average .250 Role Baseball player Home runs 4 Weight 95 kg | Runs batted in 21 Salary 424,303 USD (2015) Name Carlos Perez | |
Carlos Eduardo Pérez Alvarez (born October 27, 1990) is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Career
Pérez signed with the Toronto Blue Jays as an international free agent in 2008. He was acquired by the Houston Astros in a July 2012 trade along with Francisco Cordero, Ben Francisco, Asher Wojciechowski, David Rollins, and Joe Musgrove, in exchange for J. A. Happ, Brandon Lyon, and David Carpenter. He was added to the Astros' 40-man roster on November 3, 2014.
On November 5, 2014, the Astros traded Pérez and Nick Tropeano to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in exchange for Hank Conger.
Pérez was promoted to the major leagues on May 4, 2015 to back up Chris Iannetta. In his major league baseball debut on May 5, 2015, he hit a walk-off home run off of Dominic Leone giving the Angels a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
