Royals catcher Salvador Perez is this year’s winner of the Roberto Clemente Award, one of Major League Baseball’s highest individual honors.

Perez received recognition Monday night at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx prior to Game Three of the World Series. He’s the first Royal to ever win the award that recognizes players who represent baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, and philanthropy. The Venezuela native has spent his entire 17-year career with the Royals, including MVP honors in the 2015 World Series. Among his charitable contributions, Perez and his family regularly distribute food and kitchen supplies to around two-thousand homes in his hometown of Valencia, Venezuela. He’s also paid for cleft-lip surgeries for kids and donates to children’s hospitals. He’s also helped establish a foundation in Colombia for parents and caregivers of kids who plan to enroll in a baseball academy or program.

Closer to Kansas City, Perez made a $1 million donation to the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy when it opened, and hosted over 100 kids from Kansas City’s urban core at a baseball clinic which also provided each participant a backpack filled with school supplies.

Perez will also receive recognition next month in St Louis as one of this year’s Musial Award honorees, to celebrate his spending an off-day this summer joining a pick-up game of wiffle ball in a Kansas City area backyard.