Salvador Perez Moves Within 10 of 317 Royals Homers

salvador perez entered the West Coast road trip with 307 career home runs, leaving him 10 shy of George Brett’s Royals record of 317. He is also two total bases from 3,000, a mark that would put him in a small slice of franchise history.

Perez and George Brett

The home run chase is now down to 10. Brett holds the Royals mark at 317, and Perez has reached 307 while still adding to a total that keeps climbing with every extra-base hit and every long run of health in the lineup.

That gap has made the record chase feel realistic. Perez can move into a tie at 317 without much more than a normal power stretch, but Brett’s total bases figure of 5,044 sits far beyond what Perez has built so far.

Royals record chase

Perez’s 2,998 total bases leave him two shy of 3,000, a number only four Royals have already reached. If he gets there, he would become the fifth player in franchise history to do it.

That part of the chase is separate from the home run race. Total bases reward more than power alone, and Perez’s number reflects the steady production that has kept him near the top of the Royals’ all-time lists for years.

Mike Sweeney behind Perez

Mike Sweeney is already well behind Perez on the Royals’ all-time home run leaderboard, which leaves Brett as the only barrier between Perez and the top spot. The path is clear on the home run side, even if the total-bases benchmark remains the more demanding number.

For Royals fans tracking the franchise book, the next swing that matters most is simple: one more homer closes the gap to Brett, and two more total bases move Perez into another club milestone. The chase now sits in the narrow space between imminent and historic.