{"id":2379556,"date":"2026-04-19T04:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2379556"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:00:06","slug":"what-happened-with-salvador-perez-royals-legend-isnt-happy-with-manager-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-happened-with-salvador-perez-royals-legend-isnt-happy-with-manager-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened with Salvador Perez? Royals legend isn&#8217;t happy with manager decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Salvador Perez isn&#8217;t happy, and he didn&#8217;t hide his discontent, either.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a>&#8216; legendary catcher expressed his displeasure on social media on Saturday night, and it caught everyone&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>He seems like the last guy anyone with the Royals would want to make upset, but clearly, that&#8217;s exactly what they did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\/news\/blue-jays-prospect-charles-mcadoo-loud-bat-begging-call\/d3d279dc72bbc0c382766183\">This Blue Jays prospect is related to an NBA Hall of Famer<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What happened with Salvador Perez?<\/h2>\n<p>This stems from Royals manager Matt Quatraro giving Perez a day off Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This is how <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DBLesky\/status\/2045664713762333037\/photo\/1\">Quatraro explained<\/a> it to reporters pregame:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just looking at the way things have gone, he&#8217;s played in every game. Day game after night game, Carter (Jensen) was going to catch today, and Salvy&#8217;s been struggling a little bit. Just try to give him a little mental breather.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perez apparently saw that quote, because he posted this on X after the game:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don\u2019t need a mental breather<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salvador Perez (@SalvadorPerez15) <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalvadorPerez15\/status\/2045658124921503981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(In case that tweet gets deleted at some point, it simply reads, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need a mental breather.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Making matters even slightly odder is that the Royals <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DBLesky\/status\/2045664713762333037\/photo\/3\">called up<\/a> catcher Elias Diaz from Triple-A Omaha on Saturday night. It&#8217;s not clear what that&#8217;s in conjunction with yet.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year old Perez is off to a slow start to the 2026 season, just 12-for-75 (.160 average) with three home runs.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of the best players in Royals history, and clearly he wants to be on the field. He&#8217;s always been one of the leaders among catchers in games played.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, though, he wasn&#8217;t in the lineup, and he clearly didn&#8217;t like the supposed reason why.<\/p>\n<h2 data-end=\"1074\" data-start=\"1057\">More MLB news:<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sportingnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salvador Perez isn&#8217;t happy, and he didn&#8217;t hide his discontent, either. The Kansas City Royals&#8216; legendary catcher expressed his displeasure on social media on Saturday night, and it caught everyone&#8217;s attention. He seems like the last guy anyone with the Royals would want to make upset, but clearly, that&#8217;s exactly what they did. 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