Reports of Salvador Perez’s demise were premature.
It was just last July that Salvy was slumping. His on-base percentage dropped below .290, he went three weeks without a home run, and his OPS fell to .701. Matthew LaMar, among others, suggested that perhaps the former World Series MVP was succumbing to the same age-related decline that virtually every player experiences.
Since May 28, he’s hit .183/.226/.270, striking out ten times for every walk he’s taken. Could he bounce back? Absolutely. It’s just that, at some point, he won’t. That might be now. He’s 33 and has caught 9800 big league innings with all the physical toll that comes with it.