César Salazar

BIOGRAPHY

Cesar Salazar was born March 15, 1996, in Hermosillo, Sonora, México. He is a catcher in the MLB.

The Houston Astros selected Salazar in the seventh round, 222nd overall, of the 2018 Major League Baseball draft. He spent his first professional season playing 36 games between the Low-A Tri-City ValleyCats and Single-A Quad Cities River Bandits. He spent the 2019 season with Quad Cities, hitting .262/.323/.371 with 3 home runs, 39 RBI, and 5 stolen bases across 71 games. Salazar did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Salazar spent the 2021 season split between the High-A Asheville Tourists and Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks, also appearing in one game for the Triple-A Sugar Land Skeeters. In 56 total games, Salazar hit a cumulative .251/.338/.492 with 11 home runs, 32 RBI, and 4 stolen bases. In 2022, he spent the majority of the year with Corpus Christi, ending the year with Sugar Land, who had rebranded as the Space Cowboys. In 102 games between the two affiliates, he slashed .265/.338/.445 with 16 home runs, 60 RBI, and 8 stolen bases.

On March 28, 2023, the Astros announced that Salazar had made the Opening Day roster. He had his contract selected to the 40-man roster on March 30. On April 2, 2023, Salazar made his major league debut, appearing as a pinch hitter and drawing a base on balls (BB) in his lone plate appearance that game.