Flores grew up in a family of eight that included three brothers and two sisters. Three of the four sons are named Wilmer, however, no one but dad gets to be called Wilmer. SF’s Wilmer is called “Catire’’ (pronounced kah-tear-ay) by his family for his blonde hair as a baby (Catire is Venezuelan slang for a blondie)...His youngest brother, Wilmer De Jesus Flores, is called “Chiquito,” meaning “little” and his other brother, Wilmer Rafael Flores, is called “Patacon,” which is a popular Venezuelan dish made from fried...plantains. Flores’ oldest brother (and the only one that isn’t named Wilmer) is named Ronny...Wilmer De Jesus Flores (also a baseball player) is a pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Wilmer De Jesus reached Triple-A Toledo last season as a reliever...It shouldn’t come as a surprise then that when the Giants’ Wilmer and his partner, Ivonelis, had their first baby in March of 2023 they named him Wilmer José... His favorite TV show is Friends and has used the show’s theme song “I’ll Be There For You” as his at-bat music. One of the ways he improved his English was by watching all 236 episodes...He took English classes provided by the Mets and bolstered his language skills by watching American television with a dictionary by his side...Wilmer loves clothes and is always dressed to impress. During the 2021 offseason, Wilmer’s partner needed to renew her visa to enter the U.S. Since any U.S. Embassy would work, they decided to go to the U.S. Embassy in Milan, Italy, and make a vacation of it. During their week in Milan, he and his wife bought two new suitcases to carry all the new Italian clothes back to Venezuela...His favorite home-cooked meal (and his favorite food overall) is pasticho, which he describes is like lasagna but a little different....Loves pizza and typically has it on Sundays. Some of his favorite toppings are pepperoni, cheese, ham, corn (which he admits they don’t put on pizza much in the US) and anchovies.
2024
Endured one of the least productive seasons of his 12-year MLB career, appearing in just 71 games while logging a .595 OPS...His 71 games were his fewest in a non-shortened season since appearing in 27 games during his rookie campaign with the Mets in 2013...Battled through right knee tendinitis for most of the year...was on the IL with the injury from June 28-July 9, missing nine games...went back on the IL with the same injury on July 25 and eventually underwent a Tenex procedure to clean out dead tissue around the quadriceps tendon above the knee on Aug. 6 that ended his season...Hit his 150th career home run on May 4 at Philadelphia…became the 20th Venezuelan-born player to reach the 150-homer mark...Hit his sixth career grand slam (first since 2022) on June 5 at Arizona...Lined his 1,000th career hit on June 14 with a single off LAA’s Tyler Anderson…became the 17th Venezuelan-born player to reach 1,000 hits and 150 homers in his career. Recorded his 200th career double on June 16 vs. LAA.
2023
Set full-season career-highs in home runs (23), OBP (.355), SLG (.509) and OPS (.864)...Led the Giants in home runs (23), SLG (.509), and OPS (.864) while finishing second in RBI (60)...Made his ninth Opening Day roster and his fourth with the Giants...His .383 batting average in July was second-best in MLB behind CHC’s Cody Bellinger’s .400 average (min. 80 plate appearances) ... his 1.118 OPS ranked sixth...Hit .344 out of the two-hole in the lineup, the highest average among MLB hitters with at least 120 plate appearances in that spot of the lineup...Recorded his 500th career RBI with a bases loaded walk on Sept. 8...Played 61 games at first base, 22 at third base, six at second base and 41 as designated hitter...His 20-game on-base streak from July 16 to Aug. 9 was the longest by a Giant last season...Hit two home runs and plated five runs in the Giants’ 11-10 win at CIN on July 18.
2022
Set career highs in games played (151), home runs (19), doubles (28), RBI (71), walks (59) and runs scored (72) in his third season in San Francisco...Led the Giants in games played & RBI...ranked second in homers, runs scored and hits...Was the recipient of the Willie Mac Award in a vote by his teammates, coaches, training staff and the fans...Agreed to a two-year contract extension with a player option and team option for 2025 on Sept. 12...His 49 home runs since 2020 are the second-most on the team behind Mike Yastrzemski (52)…Appeared in his 1,000th career game on Sept. 16 vs. LAD...Saw action all over the infield, playing 45 games at 1st base, 61 games at 2nd base and 34 games at 3rd base...Nine of his 19 homers gave SF the lead or tied the game (6 go-ahead, 3-game tying)…Made his eighth Opening Day roster and his third with the Giants...Has played at least 150 games at first, second, third and short in his career – one of just five players in baseball history to do so (also: Marwin Gonzalez, Mark Loretta, Denis Menke & Sean Rodriguez)…Hit his fifth career grand slam on May 7 vs. St. Louis and also drove in six runs, matching his career-high...with his six RBI, he was the first MLB player to have a 6-RBI game with no more than one hit since Cecil Fielder did it for the Tigers on Aug. 9, 1994...Lifted SF to a victory with his walk-off homer on Sept. 4 vs. Philadelphia...was his fifth career walk-off homer and 11th career walk-off RBI...Flores’ 11 walk-off RBI since 2014 are second-most in the Majors to only Josh Donaldson (12).
2021
Appeared in a career-best 139 games for SF while matching his career-high in homers (18) from 2017 with NYM...was his sixth year with double-digit HRs...Was one of the toughest players in the league to strike out, only striking out once every 7.79 PAs...was third-best ratio in the NL (min. 400 PA) behind PIT's Keivn Newman (13.51) and PIT/SD's Adam Frazier (9.26)...15 of his 18 homers came from June 16 through the end of the year...averaged a homer every 16.13 at-bats in that stretch...Hit .309 with four doubles, four homers, 14 RBI and a .842 OPS over his final 36 games of the regular season...Went 14-for-41 with three doubles, two homers, five RBI and a .947 OPS vs. the Dodgers (11 games)...Made 91 starts (51 at 3B, 22 at 2B, 21 at 1B, & two at DH)...His 139 games played were tied for most on the team with OF Mike Yastrzemski.
POSTSEASON: Went just 1-for-12 (.083) in four NLDS games.
2020
Hit .268 (53-for-198) with 30 runs scored, 11 doubles, one triple, 12 homers and 32 RBI in 55 games...Led the team in games played (55) and home runs (12)…His 15 multi-hit games were tied with Solano for the second-most on the team (Yastrzemski, 17)…Made 50 starts, logging time as the designated hitter (21 starts), second base (14 starts), first (12) & third (three)…Seven of his 12 home runs and 16 of his 32 RBI came on two-strike counts...his seven two-strike homers were tied for fifth-most in the Majors...His six game-winning RBI led the team, while his nine go-ahead RBI were second only to Yastrzemski's 10 such RBI... Homered in three-straight games for the first time in his career from Aug. 19-21...totaled 10 RBI in that span.
2019
Played in 89 games in his only season with Arizona...batted .317 with 18 doubles, nine homers and 37 RBI.... Batted .368 (42-for-114) with eight doubles, seven home runs and 22 RBI after Aug. 1, the fourth-best average in the Majors in that time, behind only Howie Kendrick (.425), Alex Bregman (.372) and Ketel Marte (.369)... Hit .337 (35-for-104) vs. left-handed pitching, including .415 vs. lefties after August 7... Produced a .366 (41-for-112) average vs. the NL West with 11 doubles, five homers and 18 RBI in 36 games vs. division foes.... Led all qualified Major Leaguers in August in average (.451, 23-for-51), on-base percentage (.491), slugging percentage (.824) and OPS (1.314)...his .451 clip wasthe highest mark in a single month in Diamondbacks history.... Appeared in 64 games (56 starts) at 2nd base and 16 games (four starts) at 1st base.... Reached base safely in six straight plate appearances from August 15-17 (HR, HR, 2B, 1B, 1B, 1B) vs. San Francisco.... Missed nearly two months due to a left foot contusion and was on the 10-day injured list from May 20-July 18.
2018
Appeared in 126 games for the Mets, batting .267 AVG/.319 OBP/.417 SLG with 25 doubles, 11 home runs, 51 RBI, 29 walks and 43 runs scored…set career highs in doubles and walks...Led the Majors with 4 walk-off RBI, including a pair of walk-off home runs…was 1 of 9 players in 2018 with multiple walk-off homers...Notched a team-high 20 go-ahead RBI...Tied for second in the NL and tied for fifth in the Majors with a career-high 9 sacrifice flies...Struck out just 42 times in 429 plate appearances for a career-best 9.8 pct. strikeout rate, fourth-lowest in the majors (min. 400 PA)...Played 83 games (73 starts) at first base, 13 games (6 starts) at second and 10 games (9 starts) at third.
2017
Broke his nose on a foul ball off his bat in the second game of the doubleheader with Houston on September 2...Did not play the remainder of the season...Was also on the 10-Day Disabled List with a right knee infection from April 20-May 3...Hit a career-high 18 home runs (his previous best was 16 in both 2015 and 2016)...Hit his 18th home run of the season with his fourth career grand slam in the first game of a doubleheader with Houston on September 2...Has one grand slam in each of the last four seasons...Is one of five Mets to have three seasons of at least 15 home runs at age 25 or younger...The other four are Darryl Strawberry (five such seasons), David Wright (four such seasons), Lee Mazzilli (three such seasons) and John Milner (three such seasons)...After May 8, Flores batted .289 (58-201) with 11 doubles, one triple, 11 homers and 37 RBI versus righthanded pitching...Hit .291 (30-103) with seven home runs and 13 RBI vs. lefthanders...Since the beginning of 2016, Flores has 18 home runs vs. lefthanders...Started 20 games at first base, 10 at second base and 49 at third base...Cracked two pinch-hit homers (May 15 at Arizona and July 20 vs. St. Louis)...Has three career pinch-hit home runs...His .379 (25-66) batting average in May was the third-best in the majors behind Houston's Carlos Correa (.386) and Marwin Gonzalez (.382) (min. 60 plate appearances)...Belted his second career walk-off homer with his walk-off blast on July 22 vs. Oakland (his other came July 31, 2015 vs. Washington)...Has six career walk-off RBI...The six walk-off RBI are tied for fifth-most in team history.
2016
Underwent surgery to remove the hook of the hamate bone in his right wrist on October 6 at the Hospital for Special Surgery...Made his second career Opening Day roster...Played in 51 games at third base, 27 at first base, 18 at second base and eight at shortstop...Was on the Disabled List from May 11-29 with a mild strain of his left hamstring...Did not play after September 10 due to a wrist injury he suffered while sliding into home plate at Washington...Matched his career-high from 2015 with 16 home runs...His 16th home run was his first career pinch-hit homer on September 7 at Cincinnati...Batted .340 (34-100) off lefthanded pitching...11 of his 16 home runs were off lefthanded pitchers...Had a .710 slugging percentage off lefties, the highest in the majors (min. 100 at-bats vs. LHP)...Led the team in RBI from June 1-September 10 (47)... Hit .291 (72-247) with 11 doubles, 15 home runs and 32 runs scored from June 1 through the end of his season...Became the second player in franchise history to record six hits in a game when he went 6-6 on July 3 vs. Chicago-NL...Recorded a multi-homer game as part of his six-hit day on July 3...Turned in his second multi-homer game of the season on July 6 vs. Miami...Was his fourth career multi-homer game...Became the first Mets third baseman to have a pair of multi-homer games over a span of four games...Hit his third career grand slam on August 26 vs. Philadelphia (off Adam Morgan)...Two of his three career grand slams have come vs. the Phillies...Went 3-5 and had the game-winning walk-off RBI on August 13 vs. San Diego in the 11th inning...Was his fifth career walk-off RBI...Had a career-best nine-game hitting streak from August 18-August 31.
2015
Made his first Opening Day roster...Set career highs in nearly every offensive category: average (.263), hits (127), doubles (22), home runs (16) and RBI (59)...Led the team in walk-off RBI (May 26 vs.Philadelphia, June 15 vs. Toronto and July 31 vs. Washington)...Was tied for third in the majors with his three walk-off RBI. • Made 96 starts at shortstop and 30 at second base... Hit .310 (31-100) vs. lefthanders...Batted .286 (36-126) with RISP...Became the fifth Mets middle infielder in team history to hit 15 or more home runs in a season... Joined Edgardo Alfonzo, Jeff Kent, Jose Reyes and Jose Valentin....Connected for his first career walk-off home run on July 31 vs. Washington and drove in both runs in the Mets' 2-1 win...Was his first home run since June 12 (146 at-bats). ... Batted .296 (42-142) with 21 runs scored, eight doubles, six home runs and 19 RBI in 44 games from July 31 through the end of the season....Eight of his 16 home runs either tied the game or gave the Mets a lead...Had a career-high eight game hitting streak from April 16-25...Was 12-30 (.400) with three home runs and eight RBI over that span...Also hit in eight straight from May 30-June 7...Reached base safely in a career-high 14 straight games from April 11-27 with a .313 batting average (15-48) and .365 OBP over that streak....Connected on his second career-grand slam on May 16 vs. Milwaukee (off Matt Garza)... According to Elias, Flores became the fourth player in Mets history to hit a grand slam in a game in which he started in the ninth-spot in the batting order... Hit his eighth home run of the year in the third inning on May 31 vs. Miami...Was the first shortstop in team history to hit eight home runs by the end of May and it was tied for the fourth-highest single season total by a shortstop under
the age of 24...The only higher totals belong to Alex Rodriguez, who did it twice (10 in 1996 at age 20; 20 in 1998 at age 22), and Cal Ripken (11 in 1984 at age 23)...Four other under-24 players had exactly eight homers from the shortstop position by the end of May: Arky Vaughan (1935 Pirates), Rico Petrocelli (1966 Red Sox), Rodriguez (1999 Mariners) and Jean Segura (2013 Brewers)...Research courtesy of the Elias Sports Bureau.
POSTSEASON
Batted .286 (4-14) during the NLCS...Hit .300 (3-10) in the NLDS....Went 2-3 with two runs scored in his first postseason start in Game 3 of the NLDS vs. Los Angeles-NL.
2014
Opened the year with Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League, before the Mets recalled him on April 2...Optioned to Las Vegas on April 5 before returning to the majors on May 8...Optioned again on June 25...Recalled for the final time on July 24...Made starts at shortstop and second base, and also appearred at third base...Played shortstop 51 times, making 50 starts...Had 19 appearances, 17 starts, at second and one appearance, no starts, at third...Had two, career-high six-RBI games...Hit his first career grand slam (off Phillippe Aumont) and drove in six runs on June 2 at Philadelphia...Became the third Mets shortstop with six RBI in a game and first since Dick Schofield on July 19, 1992 vs. San Francisco...Jerry Buchek also did it on September 22, 1967 in Game 2 against Houston...Hit two home runs (off Brad Penny, 2), his first career multi-home run game, and drove in six on September 16 vs. Miami...Finished the season as one of two players in the majors with multiple games of at least six RBI (also, Justin Morneau)...The last Mets player to have two such games in a season was Carlos Delgado in 2008...Robin Ventura (1999) and Mike Piazza (2002) are the only other players in franchise history with two such games...The last rookie with two six-RBI games in a season was Geovany Soto in 2008 for Chicago (NL)...He drove in seven and six in separate games...Was the third Mets rookie to have six or more RBI in a game, joining David Wright (August 5, 2004 at Milwaukee) and Jeromy Burnitz (seven, August 5, 1993 at Montreal)...Became the seventh player since 1920 to have a game with at least six RBI as a second baseman and as a shortstop, and the only one to do so in the same season...The other six are: Jeff Blauser, Eddie Joost, Felipe Lopez, Dick McAuliffe, Juan Uribe and Jose Valentin.Had two career-best seven-game hitting streaks, going 11-28 (.393) during both runs (August 29-September 6, and September 13-September 20)...Hit his first career home run at Citi Field, August 27 vs. Atlanta (off Julio Teheran) and his first since June 2 at Philadelphia...Went 104 at-bats between home runs...Collected his first game-ending RBI, September 8 vs. Colorado...Lifted a sacrifice fly off LaTroy Hawkins to give the Mets a 3-2 win...Had an extra-base hit in a career-best four consecutive games (six total; two doubles, one triple, three home runs), September 13-September 16...Scored a team-best 15 times in September and finished the month with four home runs, which tied for the ninth most in the NL and 13 RBI...Hit safely in 22 straight games with Las Vegas from June 27-July 21...Batted .378 (34-90) with 29 RBI during the streak...Hit .332 with six home runs and 18 RBI with Margarita of the Venezuelan Winter League.
2013
Started the season with Las Vegas (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League before he was recalled the Mets on August 6...Made his major league debut that night vs. Colorado. Went 0-4 with an error in his big league debut...Played third base and hit sixth in the line-up...Also became the second Mets player to debut on his birthday, joining righthanded pitcher John Pacella, who made his major league debut on September 15, 1977 at Philadelphia. Collected his first two hits and first three RBI, August 7 vs. Colorado...Singled against Jhoulys Chacin for his first major league hit...Became the sixth player in team history to collect three RBI in one of his first two games and the first Met since Mike Jacobs on August 21, 2005. Drove in 11 runs in his first 11 games, tied for the highest total through 11 games in franchise history...Jose Reyes drove in 11 in 2003...Had two, three-RBI game as part of the stretch...Had an RBI in five of his first six games, one of 12 major leaguers since 1916 to do this...Only two players since 1916 (George Shuba and Dale Alexander) drove in at least one run in six of their first six career games. Had an RBI in five straight games, August 7-August 11, tied for the fourth-longest streak in franchise history by a rookie...Justin Turner had a seven-game streak, May14-May 21, 2011. Hit his first major league home run, August 11 at Arizona (off Heath Bell). Finished with a career-best three hits, August 23 vs. Detroit... Singled three times. Made his first career start at second base, August 28 vs. Philadelphia...Made 26 appearances, 25 starts, at third base and two appearances, one start at second base. Closed out the season hitting .111 (5-45) over his final 13 games. Hit .321 (136-424) with 15 home runs and 86 RBI in 107 games for the 51s.
2012
Split the season between St. Lucie (A) of the Florida State League and Binghamton (AA) of the Eastern League and was named the Sterling Organizational Player of the Year...Named a MiLB.com Organizational All-Star...Combined to hit .300 (148-493) with 68 runs scored, 30 doubles, two triples, a career-high 18 home runs and 75 RBI in 130 games...Was selected the MVP of the FSL All-Star Game, going 3-4 with three RBI to help the South All-Stars to a 6-3 win over the North squad on June 17 at Charlotte Sports Park in Port Charlotte, FL...Selected to the 2012 All-Star Futures Game, his second (also, 2009)...He started at third base and went 0-2...Had a season-high four hits twice during the season, once at St. Lucie vs. Jupiter on May 1 and once at Binghamton at Erie on June 24...Made his Double-A debut on June 21 at Akron...Went 1-4 with an RBI...Hit in nine straight from August 20-August 28, going 19-35 (.543) with three home runs and six RBI...Had six multi-hit games during the streak, including four, three-hit games...Made 12 errors during the season, a career-low...Made starts at second base (27 combined), third base (86 combined), first base (seven at Binghamton) and designated hitter (seven at Binghamton)...Hit .390 (46-118) on the road for the B-Mets...Also went 40-106 (.377) with five home runs in August...Batted .343 (23-67) with runners in scoring position...Batted .309 (47-152) with 70 RBI with men in scoring position...In addition, he compiled a .302 (77-255) batting mark with runners on base...Also compiled a .293 (49-167) batting mark against lefthanded pitching...Batted .272 (53-195) with 10 doubles, five home runs and 20 RBI in 53 games for Bravos de Margarita of the Venezulean Winter League.
2011
Hit .323 (30-93) in 24 April games with St. Lucie (A) of the Florida State League...Had five doubles and 18 RBI for the month...Batted .309 (47-152) with 70 RBI with men in scoring position...In addition, he compiled a .302 (77-255) batting mark with runners on base...Also compiled a .293 (49-167) batting mark against lefthanded pitching...In 23 June games, he fashioned a .293 (24-82) average...For the season, he had 40 multiple-hit games: 33 games with two hits and seven contests with three hits...Knocked in five runs at Daytona Beach on May 24 and four runs at Bradenton on April 26.
2010
Split the year between Savannah (A) of the South Atlantic League and St Lucie (A) of the Florida State League...Was the Sterling Award winner for St. Lucie, emblematic of the top player on his team.
2009
Played in Major League Baseball's Futures All-Star Game.
2008
Batted .310 in 59 games for Kingsport (R) of the Appalachian League...Was the Sterling Award winner for his club.
