Keibert (KAY-bert) Jose Ruiz...Is married to wife, Ryena...They have one son, Keibert Jr.
2024
Embarked on his third full season as Washington's primary backstop...Ranked sixth in Major League Baseball (min. 450 PA) with an 11.1% strikeout rate...Finished the season strong, hitting .288 (23-for-80) with a .413 slugging percentage (7 2B, HR) in 21 games from Sept. 3 through the end of the season...Hit .250/.278/.396 with 20 doubles, 11 homers, 51 RBI, 13 walks, three stolen bases and 41 runs in 102 games after May 18...Was hitting .147/.190/.221 entering play that day...Finished the season on a four-game hitting streak: 6-for-17 (.353) with four RBI...Matched a career-high with four straight multi-hit games, May 24-27...Recorded his third career multi-homer game, Aug. 15 at Philadelphia.
2023
Posted the best offensive season of his young career, setting career marks in nearly every offensive category...Ranked third in Major League Baseball with 10.3% strikeout rate...18 home runs were the second most by a catcher in a single season in Nationals history (2005-pres.) behind only Wilson Ramos’ 22 home runs in 2016...Finished eighth in Major League Baseball (fifth in the NL) and second among MLB catchers with .365 average with runners in scoring position...From July 9 through the end of the season, ranked among MLB catchers in average (second, .303), hits (third, 74) and on-base percentage (fifth, .345)...Hit his first career walk-off homer on Aug. 12 vs. Oakland (Erceg)...Was the first pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning.
2022
Despite having his season end on Sept. 8, Ruiz ranked among National League catchers in pickoffs (T1st, 4), catcher caught stealing (2nd, 18), games (2nd, 112), doubles (5th, 22), hits (5th, 99) and extra-base hits (T6th, 29)…His 18 catcher caught stealings ranked second in MLB behind Philadelphia catcher J.T. Realmuto (27)…Ruiz picked off four runners at first base, tied for the most in Major League Baseball with Colorado’s Elias Díaz and New York’s (AL) Jose Trevino...The four pickoffs were tied for the most in a single season in Nationals history (2005-pres.) with Brian Schneider in 2005...Ruiz hit .281/.340/.381 from Opening Day through the end of May...He hit a go-ahead 10th-inning double in Washington’s 5-4 win, May 18 at Miami...Reached safely five times in that game (3-for-3, 2 2B, RBI, 2 BB, R)…Recorded his first career multi-homer game, Aug. 9 at Chicago (NL)…Ruiz hit safely in 14 of his final 19 games, hitting .300 (18-for-60) with four doubles, one homer, six RBI, six walks, one stolen base and seven runs scored during this stretch...He struck out just one time in his last 43 plate appearances to end the season.
2021
Hit .284 with three doubles, two homers, 14 RBI, six walks and nine runs scored in 23 games for the Nationals after being recalled on Aug. 30...He stuck out just four times and did not strike out in 37 consecutive plate appearances from Sept. 20 through the end of the season, the third-longest streak by a rookie in Major League Baseball in 2021, per the Elias Sports Bureau...Elias also notes that is the longest streak by a rookie in Nationals history (2005-pres.)…He struck out just once in his last 75 plate appearances (1.3%)...Hit .396 (19-for-48) with two doubles, two homers, 10 RBI, four walks and eight runs scored in the last 13 games of the season...Was 10-for-28 (.357) with three RBI, two walks, and zero strikeouts as a right-handed batter and 14-for-60 (.233) with three doubles, three homers, 12 RBI, four walks and nine strikeouts as a left-handed batter...He clubbed a home run in his first game of the season, May 4 at Chicago (NL) a pinch-hit solo home run off Kyle Hendricks...He also homered in back-to-back games with the Nationals, Sept. 24 and 25 at Cincinnati...That was part of a stretch in which he went 16-for-34 (.471) with two doubles, two homers and nine RBI in eight games...At the time of his recal to Washington, Ruiz ranked fourth in all of Minor League Baseball with a .616 slugging percentage and ninth with a .993 OPS...In his final 13 games with Rochester, Ruiz went 21-for-52 (.404) with six doubles, four homers, 13 RBI, five walks and 10 runs scored...He recorded back-to-back multi-homer games, Aug. 24 and 25 at Syracuse...All told, he hit .310 with 24 doubles, 21 homers, 59 RBI, 30 walks and 50 runs scored in 72 games between Triple-A Oklahoma City and Triple-A Rochester...His 10.4% strikeout rate ranked 19th in all of Minor League Baseball and second-best among all upper level (Double-A and Triple-A) Minor Leaguers.
2020
Spent most of the season at the alternative training site but made his Major League debut on Aug. 16 at Los Angeles-AL...Hit a home run off of RHP Julio Teheran in his first at bat…became the first Dodger since Garey Ingram (1994) to hit a home run in his first Major League at bat.
2019
21-year old catcher enters his sixth professional season after splitting his 2019 season between Double-A Tulsa and Triple-A Oklahoma City, where he slashed a combined .261/.331/.347 with nine doubles, six homers, 34 RBI and 30 walks against 20 strikeouts across 85 games ... Entered the 2019 season ranked as the No.20 overall prospect by Baseball America and No. 36 overall prospect by MLB.com…proceeded to garner Mid-Season All-Star honors with Tulsa after slashing .260/.338/.352 with six doubles, four homers, 23 RBI and 21 walks against 13 strikeouts in 54 games ... Logged a total of 606.2 innings with a .994 fielding percentage (4 E/681 TC) across 61 games behind the plate with Tulsa, and nine games with Oklahoma City…also saw 14 games as a DH with the Drillers ... Promoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City on July 21 and went 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBI in his debut…went on to slash .316/.350/.474 with two homers and nine RBI across nine games...ranked among the top Drillers in runs (9th, 33), hits (6th, 70), doubles (8th, 9), RBI (11th, 25), total bases (11th, 91) and walks (8th, 28).
2018
Earned selections to the MLB All-Star Futures Game and as a mid-season Texas League All-Star, appearing in 101 games for Tulsa, slashing .268/.328/.401 with 14 doubles, 12 home runs and 47 RBI ... Appeared in 86 games (85 starts) at catcher for the Double-A Tulsa Drillers, posting a .995 fielding percentage and throwing out 26% of would-be base stealers (25/70) ... Batted .303 (12-for-36) with two homers and eight RBI in eight postseason games to help lead Tulsa to the Texas League title…laced a 10th-inning, walk-off single in Game 1 of the Texas League championship series ... Named to the Arizona Fall League's All-Prospect Team and participated in the 2018 Fall Stars Game after appearing in 13 games for the Glendale Desert Dogs, slashing .286/.357/.306 ... Added to the Dodgers' 40-man roster on Nov. 20, 2018.
2017
The Dodgers 2017 Branch Rickey Minor League Player of the Year had a stellar season with Single-A Great Lakes and Single-A Rancho Cucamonga, slashing .316/.361/.452 with 58 runs, 23 doubles, two triples, eight homers and 51 RBI in 101 combined games ... Appeared in a combined 86 games (84 starts) at catcher, posting a .992 fielding percentage (7 ER/749.2 IP) and throwing out 29% of would-be base stealers (26/91) ... Began the season with Great Lakes, hitting .317 with 34 runs, 16 doubles, one triple, two homers and 24 RBI along with a .372 on-base percentage in 63 games…selected as Midwest League mid-season All-Star and Baseball America's Low Class A All-Star ... Promoted to Rancho Cucamonga on July 9 and finished the season with the Quakes, slashing .315/.344/.497 with seven doubles, one triple, six homers and 27 RBI in 38 games ... As a left-handed hitter he posted a combined .344 average, compared to a .240 mark as a righty…with runners in scoring position he hit for a combined .359 average (28-for-78).
2016
Combined to slash .374/.412/.527 with 22 doubles, two homers and 48 RBI in 56 games with the Rookie-level AZL Dodgers and Rookie-advanced Ogden…named an MiLB.com Organization All-Star ... Began the season with the AZL Dodgers, where he went 16-for-33 (.485) with four doubles, a triple and 15 RBI in eight games ... Promoted to Ogden on July 2, where he ranked among the Pioneer League leaders in average (.354, 4th), OBP (.393, 8th) and SLG (.503, 12th) in 48 games
2015
In his first professional season, batted .300 with eight doubles, a triple, a homer and 19 RBI in 44 games with the Rookie-level DSL Dodgers.
