MLB
Salvador Pérez reaches new Major Leagues milestone
The Kansas City Royals player became the sixth Venezuelan to a landmark number of home runs in MLB.
Venezuelan players in the Major Leagues include Ronald Acuña Jr, who picked up the National League MVP last year, but there are also veterans like Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Pérez, who is still making his mark in American baseball.
The Royals catcher hit a home run in the fourth inning of the game against the New York Mets at Citi Field and in doing so, reached 250 career HRs in the Majors. Salvy reached the milestone, but not without controversy as the play had been credited as a double, but was later corrected by the umpires.
Payers with most HRs in MLB by birth country
- Aruba Xander Bogaerts: 176
- Australia Dave Nilsson: 105
- Brazil Yan Gomes: 136
- Canada Larry Walker: 383
- Colombia Edgar Renteria: 140
- Cuba Rafael Palmeiro: 569
- Curaçao Andruw Jones: 434
- Dominican Republic Albert Pujols: 703
- Germany Max Kepler: 153
- Jamaica Chili Davis: 350
- Japan Shohei Ohtani and Hideki Matsui: 175
- Mexico Vinny Castilla: 320
- Netherlands Didi Gregorius: 134
- Panama Carlos Lee: 358
- Puerto Rico (US) Carlos Delgado: 473
- South Korea Shin-Soo Choo: 218
- United Kingdom Bobby Thomson: 264
- United States Barry Bonds: 762
- Venezuela Miguel Cabrera: 511
The five Venezuelan players with the most home runs
The game ended with a 11-7 victory for the Royals and the Venezuelan went 2 for 5 with four RBIs. Currently, Pérez is in the third year of a four-season, $82 million extension of dollars that he signed in March 2021.
The best Venezuelan in terms of home runs is Miguel Cabrera, who said goodbye to the Major Leagues last year. The Maracay-born player added 511 complete rounds in his 21-year career in American parks.
The Top 5 is completed by Andrés Gallarága (399), Magglio Ordóñez (294), Bobby Abreu (288) and Tony Armas (251). Pérez needs two more to surpass Armas, who played in the MLB between 1976 and 1989.