page_title: Jhonny Peralta
section_title: Detroit Tigers (2010–13)
hierarchical_section_title: Jhonny Peralta / Playing career (1999–2017) / Detroit Tigers (2010–13)
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context_page_description: Jhonny Antonio Peralta is a Dominican former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman who played 15 seasons in Major League Baseball. The Cleveland Indians signed him as an amateur free agent in his native Dominican Republic in 1999, and he made his major league debut for the Indians on June 12, 2003. He subsequently played for the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals. A solid hitter with power, Peralta has rated average defensively. He throws and bats right-handed, stands 6 feet 2 inches, and weighs 225 pounds.
  Peralta was the 2004 Indians Minor League Player of the Year as well as the International League Most Valuable Player for one of Cleveland's minor league affiliates, the Buffalo Bisons, after batting .326 with 44 doubles, 15 home runs and 86 runs batted in. Buffalo was also the International League champion that same season.
  Each year from 2005 through 2015, Peralta reached at least 100 hits, and double figures in both home runs and doubles. He is a three-time MLB All-Star selection. He set single-season home run records for shortstops for two franchises – for the Indians in 2005, and the Cardinals in 2014.
context_section_description: Ten days after hitting his first inside-the-park-home-run against the Tigers, the Indians traded Peralta to the Tigers for minor league pitcher Giovanni Soto and cash considerations.  Because the club had already retired the number 2  – Peralta's uniform number as an Indian – in honor of Hall of Famer Charlie Gehringer, he chose the number 27 instead.  On July 30, Peralta hit a home run in his first plate appearance (PA) as a Tiger, and then, another, two plate appearances later.  After joining the Tigers, he returned to primarily playing shortstop.  He made 46 appearances shortstop, nine at third base, four at designated hitter and two at first base for the remainder of the 2010 season.
  Peralta was named to his first career All-Star Game as a replacement for Derek Jeter on July 8, 2011.  He finished the regular season with a career-high .299 batting average and collected 21 home runs and 86 RBI.  Playing a full season at shortstop for the first time since 2008, he committed just seven errors in 608 chances for a career-best .988 fielding percentage.  Peralta hit his first walk-off home run as a Tiger against the Chicago White Sox on May 4, 2012.
  On June 20, 2013, Peralta hit a walkoff two-run home run off Boston Red Sox closer Andrew Bailey to secure the Tigers' victory, 4–3.  It was the Tigers' first walkoff win of the season.  That season, Peralta was named to his second AL All-Star team as a reserve shortstop.  This was his first selection by player vote (his previous selection was as an injury replacement).  Peralta entered the All-Star break with a .303 batting average, eight home runs and 46 RBIs.
  However, a cloud overshadowed what was shaping to be one of Peralta's best seasons.  On August 5, he accepted a 50-game suspension for his role in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drug scandal.  On September 25, the Tigers announced that Peralta would be activated to the 40-man roster following his suspension.  He returned two days later for the final series of the regular season.  In his shortened regular season, Peralta batted .303 with 11 home runs and 55 RBI in 107 games.
  Because Detroit had acquired rookie shortstop José Iglesias from the Boston Red Sox during the suspension, manager Jim Leyland installed Peralta mainly in left field for the remainder of the season and playoffs.  The Tigers, including general manager Dave Dombrowski, expressed exoneration of Peralta's breach following the suspension.  Despite derisive chants from fans and actions such as the San Francisco Giants leaving similar violator Melky Cabrera off their playoff roster during their World Series-winning season, the Tigers saw the 50-game suspension as sufficient punishment.
  With the Tigers down 3–0 and facing elimination against the Athletics in Game 4 of the American League Division Series (ALDS), Peralta connected for a three-run home run in the fifth inning.  It was "perhaps the biggest swing of the playoffs for the Tigers so far", surmised sportswriter Noah Trister.  The Tigers eventually won the ALDS but lost to the Red Sox in the American League Championship Series.  In ten playoff games, Peralta batted .333 with four doubles, one home run and six runs batted in.
caption: Peralta with the Detroit Tigers in 2011
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