SAN FRANCISCO — From the ninth spot in the batting order, Arizona Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo drove in three runs in Friday’s 8-0 win over the Colorado Rockies, regaining the team lead in RBIs and climbing to sixth in Major League Baseball with 34.
He finished the day 1-for-2 with a sacrifice fly, a hustle double, a walk and his team-high 10th stolen base. The performance raised his slash line to .294/.397/.458 for an .855 OPS, one of the best starts to the season by a shortstop in MLB.
Perdomo made the 2023 All-Star Game as an injury replacement and lost out on the opportunity to compete for a spot last year due to a torn meniscus.
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This season, the 25-year-old is making an early case to make the team outright if he can maintain his form from the first quarter-plus of the season.
“Every player thinks about it,” Perdomo told Arizona Sports. “I haven’t thought about it so much, I’m the type of player that I wanna win before anything. That’s my mom’s dream. She wants to go with me to the All-Star Game.”
Perdomo is a more advanced player than he was two years ago, and his success appears to be more sustainable.
Perdomo in 2023 hit .409 through May 4 as a platoon bat with Nick Ahmed. He has always sported an elite eye at the plate from the time he was a teenager, and his bat-to-ball skills helped him spray hits early during that 2023 season.
His .500 batting average on balls in play was outrageous, and he eventually cooled off.
This year, he’s impacted the baseball more profoundly playing everyday and spending much of April at the top of the order due to a Ketel Marte injury.
Add a career-best pace for walks (15.2%), his lowest strikeout rate (11.5%), 10 steals and great defense, and Perdomo entered Saturday the National League’s WAR leader among shortstops at 2.4 (FanGraphs).
What are some of the key differences in Geraldo Perdomo’s batting profile?
At this point in the 2023 season, Perdomo had played 32 games. So far in 2025, he’s played 44.
On May 17, 2023, he held an 11.4% walk rate and 15.2% strikeout rate. His hard-hit rate was 21%, barrel rate was 1.6% and his average exit velocity was 84.4 mph. Fast forward to the present, his hard hit rate is up to 30.9%, his barrels are up to 4.3% and he’s averaging 88.5 mph off the bat.He’s simply hitting the ball with more force, even while pulling it less. He’s remained stubborn and is looking to all fields. From growing stronger over the years to working with the hitting coaches, this development is what he’s trained for.
“Everything’s probably just a little bit cleaner, a little bit more efficient,” hitting coach Joe Mather told Arizona Sports. “He has continued to work on pretty much the same thing for the last couple years and it’s just gotten better and better with it.”
“He’s building force on the ground,” manager Torey Lovullo evaluated. “He was very light on his feet when he started hitting at the upper levels. So he started to create some force down on the ground, which was enabling him to get out and get some bat speed and get the barrel on the baseball. That for sure is something I know he worked on a couple years ago.”
His bat tracking data shows he has improved his bat speed from 65.7 mph in 2023 to 68.3 mph now. He’s added a bit of power with five home runs, one off from his career high less than halfway through the season.
His approach has not been to lift the ball more so, and while there can be moments when his swing gets a little big, Mather said conversations have helped him reset.
“We’ve seen Gerry grow over the past couple years, and if you’ve been here long enough, you understand the type of hitter he was and the work that he’s putting in,” Lovullo said. “He’s got a really good approach with men in scoring position. He’s always been really good at surveying the strike zone. … Now there’s a little bit of thump, a little bit of force on the baseball. But it’s the approach.”
“I don’t try to be crazy or anything like that. I just try to be me,” Perdomo said. “I try to put the ball in play, just try to get on base. … I just try to hit hard line drives. If it’s a homer, I take it. If not, I just try to get extra bases, that’s my mindset.”
Only two shortstops in club history have produced an .850 OPS over their first 44 games in a given season. Perdomo has done so twice, as did Stephen Drew, per Stathead.
The Diamondbacks had one All-Star last season in Marte. In 2023, they boasted four — Corbin Carroll, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Zac Gallen and Perdomo.
Much of that assuredly had to do with the start they got off to, entering the All-Star break in a virtual tie for first place in the NL West. This year has been a bit more uneven, but the team has won three of four games, and further success will draw attention, which helps with the voting processes.
Carroll seems to be the team’s early lock (.971 OPS). Perdomo at the moment looks like the next most likely, although he’s playing a competitive position.
New York’s Francisco Lindor is off to a great start (2.0 fWAR) and has long been a fan favorite. Plus, he’s overdue, having not made the All-Star Game since 2019. Superstar Mookie Betts (1.5) of the Los Angeles Dodgers is heating up, and the popular Elly De La Cruz (0.9) of Cincinnati is a threat to rattle off a tear with his power and speed.
The starting spots on each team are voted on by fans. Player ballots and the commissioner’s office round out the rosters.
Perdomo pointed out that there is a lot of time before the Midsummer Classic (July 15) to worry about it, but the “Frogman” has put himself in promising position. More importantly, his consistency has helped keep the team afloat during tough stretches of their schedule at 24-21 overall.
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