Batting average .242 Role Baseball player Home runs 8 Height 1.80 m | Runs batted in 25 Weight 102 kg Name Roberto Perez Career start 2008 | |
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BOS@CLE Gm1: Perez shines on both sides of dish
Roberto Pérez (born December 23, 1988) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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- BOSCLE Gm1 Perez shines on both sides of dish
- Early life
- Minor league career
- Major league career
- Personal
- References
Early life
Pérez was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 29th round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft out of Eugenio Maria De Hostos High School in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He did not sign and attended Florida Gateway College.
Minor league career
Pérez was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 33rd round of the 2008 Major League Baseball Draft. Pérez played while suffering from bell's palsy during the 2013 season.
Major league career
Pérez was called up to the majors for the first time on July 8, 2014. He had his first major league hit two days later against the New York Yankees.
On July 10, 2014, Pérez hit his first career home run off of New York Yankees pitcher Jim Miller.
During part of the 2015 season, he became the primary catcher while Yan Gomes was on the disabled list. Toward the second half of the 2016 season, Pérez became the primary catcher, once again, in Gomes' spot.
In Pérez's first postseason at-bat of his career, he hit an opposite-field home run off the Boston Red Sox's Rick Porcello. Perez hit two home runs in game one of the 2016 World Series.
Personal
Pérez has one star tattoo on each hand, representing his mother and his son. His mother's name is tattooed on his right wrist.