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Salvador Perez To Miss 4-6 Weeks With MCL Tear

By Connor Byrne | March 28, 2018 at 5:05pm CDT

Royals catcher Salvador Perez suffered a Grade 2 MCL tear in his left knee and will miss the first four to six weeks of the season, Rustin Dodd of The Athletic reports. The injury occurred when Perez slipped while carrying luggage on Tuesday, per Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com. He’s unlikely to require surgery, manager Ned Yost told Flanagan and other reporters.

Perez’s accident may well lead to a career low in games played this season for the 27-year-old, who has been eminently durable throughout his Kansas City tenure. Since 2013, his first full season, Perez has appeared in no fewer than 129 games in any regular-season campaign. He logged that total last year during a season in which he hit .268/.297/.495 (103 wRC+) with a personal-best 27 home runs across 499 plate appearances. On the defensive side, Perez threw out a league-average 27 percent of would-be base stealers – a significant decline from the 48 percent he caught in 2016 – and ranked as one of Baseball Prospectus’ worst pitch framers.

Statistics aside, Perez is arguably the heart and soul of the Royals, which brings value that’s impossible to quantify. He and the re-signed Mike Moustakas are the leaders of a position player group that said goodbye to Eric Hosmer and Lorenzo Cain in free agency. Kansas City will have to make do without Perez for the first several weeks of the season, though, and that should lead to a Drew Butera–Cam Gallagher duo behind the plate (depth chart).

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  1. Blegh

    4 weeks ago

    Another Met goes down. Only the Mets!

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    • baseballpun

      4 weeks ago

      Sometimes the Royals!

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    • mafiaso316

      4 weeks ago

      he’s a Royal, not a Met’s player

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      • bastros88

        4 weeks ago

        that joke, just flew right over your head….

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        • realgone2

          4 weeks ago

          If he was a Met he’d be done for the season.

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        • brucewayne

          4 weeks ago

          Joke? How is it a joke when he keeps putting it on every injury report ? It’s stupid! Not a joke !

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        • 24TheKid

          4 weeks ago

          Met fans always act like they’re the only team that has injuries.

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        • Dodgethis

          3 weeks ago

          Giants say hello.

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        • Reflect

          3 weeks ago

          I would say it’s the media that acts like only the Mets have injuries.

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        • wiggysfwiggysf

          3 weeks ago

          Unfortunately Giants got the Mets beat for now

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    • Joel

      4 weeks ago

      Either a joke or you Mets up your facts.

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      • Dodgethis

        3 weeks ago

        Now that’s a joke 😉

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  2. Boneslab

    4 weeks ago

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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    • bigcubsfan

      4 weeks ago

      Dangit, Salvador! I told you not to run after the ice cream truck when you are carrying your suitcase!

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  3. carlote

    4 weeks ago

    unbelievable

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  4. ib6ub9

    4 weeks ago

    Why is he carrying his luggage where is his wife?

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    • carlote

      4 weeks ago

      touche!!!

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    • brucewayne

      4 weeks ago

      What? That’s a dumb comment! But I thought one of the perks of the big leagues was that you didn’t have to carry your own bags !

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      • DimitriInLA

        3 weeks ago

        It doesn’t really matter—his injury is t caused by luggage—it’s caused by compromised muscles, tendons and ligaments. That could happen (as with Roger Federer) while he’s giving his kid a bath, or on the playing field. Either way, it’s virtually inevitable.

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  5. CubsRule08

    4 weeks ago

    And now Salvy will be joined in lore by all the other oddly weird injuries suffered by MLB players.

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    • realgone2

      4 weeks ago

      Who was it that cut their hand up slicing frozen meat?

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      • takeyourbase

        4 weeks ago

        Jeremy Affeldt?

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      • Cat Mando

        4 weeks ago

        Jeremy Affeldt? He was separating frozen burgers. The weirdest to me was Brian Anderson. He burnt his face testing to see a hotel iron was hot.

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      • agentx

        4 weeks ago

        Not sure exactly who was slicing frozen meat, but Oddibe McDowell definitely makes the list for slicing his hand while cutting a dinner role at a team-sponsored dinner in Arlington years ago.

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      • agentx

        4 weeks ago

        Clint Barmes never hit with the same authority after separating his shoulder falling down the stairs while carrying a bundle of deer meat, gifted by teammate Todd Helton.

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      • Doug

        4 weeks ago

        Glenallen Hill got cut up after smashing a glass table, dreaming that spiders were attacking him.

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      • Padres2019ha

        4 weeks ago

        Cashner cut his hand while skinning a buck.

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      • Lanidrac

        3 weeks ago

        Mike Matheny once sliced his hand on a knife he was opening as a birthday present..

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      • xabial

        3 weeks ago

        Derek Holland was involved in a bizarre injury; tore ACL somehow, caused by combination of his dog, and stairs.

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    • ldfanatic

      4 weeks ago

      The Sosa sneeze take a the tissue.

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      • dvmwitt

        4 weeks ago

        No no no…Chris Brown with the pulled eyelash for the Padres back in ’88.

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        • brewcat

          4 weeks ago

          Don’t forget Steve Sparks blowing out his shoulder trying to tear a phone book in half.

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        • mike127

          4 weeks ago

          Eyelid, but good memory! That’s one of the best ever.

          Also, get a big kick out of Kendrys Morales jumping on home plate after a walk off grand slam and breaking his leg.

          And, of course, OJ cutting his finger on a glass in a Chicago hotel.

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    • andrew farelli

      4 weeks ago

      Or the time Micah Johnson cut his hand open trying to de-pit an avocado.

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    • Ruben_TomorrowRuben_Tomorrow

      4 weeks ago

      Like Mat Latos straining his oblique for holding in a sneeze.

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      • chitown311

        4 weeks ago

        Ummmm Jeff Kent washing his car (allegedly)

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  6. realgone2

    4 weeks ago

    Well isn’t that some crappy luck?

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  7. chrichri

    4 weeks ago

    It’s only fair to blame Drew Butera, he tried to hurt Perez last year to get more playing time.

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  8. Solaris601

    4 weeks ago

    He’s only expected to miss 4-6 weeks with an MCL tear? I’m no doctor, and I don’t know how extensive the tear is, but being a catcher with a knee injury like that I have to think 4-6 weeks is pretty optimistic.

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    • davidcoonce74davidcoonce74

      4 weeks ago

      He is an elite athlete so injuries like this probably have a shorter timeline than they would for people like us. But still, the Royals might be in trouble by not having a backup catcher. They probably weren’t going to be good anyway but not having a catcher at all is a real problem.

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  9. realgone2

    4 weeks ago

    I forgot that Lucroy also had an luggage related injury.

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  10. brett2sb

    4 weeks ago

    As far as back ups go we’re fortunate to have Drew Butera

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    • kcbbfan

      4 weeks ago

      No team has a good backup catcher otherwise they would starters…Butera is no exception.. he’s one tenth the player Perez is and the Royals will pay a price losing him for two months. This stinks!

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      • davidcoonce74davidcoonce74

        3 weeks ago

        The Braves employed two very good catchers last year.

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        • wiggysfwiggysf

          3 weeks ago

          Giants have Hundley. He could probably be a pretty good starter

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  11. muskie73

    4 weeks ago

    Former Seattle reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki suffered broken ribs in a reported bout with a suitcase:

    link to seattlepi.com

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  12. nstale

    4 weeks ago

    the Royals should sign Cameron Rupp in the meantime

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    • kcbbfan

      4 weeks ago

      Not a bad idea altho I think they will just recall Gallagher from Omaha.and let Butera have his day in the sun.

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  13. champion1701

    4 weeks ago

    karma sucks

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  14. Joseph Anderson

    3 weeks ago

    He’s just sad LoCain is gone and wanted to take a break. Nothing to see here….lol

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  15. bhunt95

    3 weeks ago

    Lot of odd things happening to Royals last couple years.

    Ventura death
    Pitcher Flynn falling off barn he was roofing
    Ned Yost almost dying falling out of deer stand.
    Now Perez missed a step on his stairs at his house moving his family in.

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