Married to Maira López...Played for Cuba in 2018 U-15 World Cup.
2025
Ranked fourth among American League catchers (min. 400 PA) with a .268 average and .333 on-base percentage and eighth with 98 hits...His 98 hits tied Hall of Famer Ray Schalk (1913) for the second-most in White Sox history by a rookie catcher behind Billy Sullivan's 100 in 1931 … recorded eight games with three-plus hits, including a career-high four on 7/25 vs. the Cubs...Young Guns: Quero, INF Chase Meidroth, SS Colson Montgomery and C Kyle Teel became the second position player foursome in White Sox history to record a 1.0-plus WAR mark in their age 23-or-younger season, joining Jack Fournier, Braggo Roth, Ray Schalk and Buck Weaver in 1914...Hit Parade: Meidroth (114), Quero (98), Teel (69) and Montgomery (61) combined for 342 hits, the most by a Sox rookie foursome since Chris Singleton (149), Carlos Lee (144), Craig Wilson (60) and Mark Johnson (47) recorded 400 in 1999...Was one of three White Sox rookies this season to record a four-hit game (Meidroth and Teel) and is one of four Sox rookie catchers since 1980 to accomplish that feat...Right and Left: Batted .357/.394/.457 (46-for-129) from the right side of the plate and .234/.313/.328 (47-for-101) from the left side … his .357 average vs. left-handers ranked second in the Major Leagues … hit four of his five homers vs. lefties...Made 66 starts at catcher and 28 at designated hitter … started in all nine spots in the batting order...Sox pitchers recorded a 3.92 ERA (252 ER/579.0 IP) when he was behind the plate… caught five of the White Sox nine shutouts … threw out 10-79 (12.7 percent) base stealers...Led the Major Leagues with five catcher pickoffs, tied with Bill Nahorodny (1978) for the most in White Sox history...Made his Major League debut as the starting catcher on 4/17 vs. the Athletics after his contract was selected from Class AAA Charlotte prior to the game...Reached base safely 25 times in his first 56 career plate appearances (.446 on-base percentage)...Recorded his first career hit on 4/18 at Boston, a double off Josh Winckowski, his first career multi-hit game on 4/19 at the Red Sox and his first career RBI on 4/20 at Boston with a two-run single in the seventh inning. Collected three hits on 4/22 at Minnesota at the age of 22.016, the youngest Sox player since Dayan Viciedo (21.142) on 7/30/2010 vs. Oakland to accomplish that feat... Matched his career high with three hits in a 5-1 victory on 5/13 at Cincinnati … went 3-4 with two doubles and a run scored on 5/25 vs. Texas...Recorded his fourth three-hit effort of the season on 6/12 at Houston, going 3-4 with two RBI...Batted .346/.417/.635 (16-48) with six doubles, three home runs, nine RBI and 10 runs scored over 15 games in July...Reached base safely in all four plate appearances on 7/2 at the Dodgers, including singles in each of his first three plate appearances against Clayton Kershaw, who recorded his 3,000th career strikeout later in that game...Connected on his first MLB homer on 7/4 at Colorado, a solo shot off Antonio Senzatela … hit his second homer on 7/18 at Pittsburgh, a solo shot off Bailey Falter in the first inning of a 10-1 victory to start the second half...Recorded a career-high four hits on 7/25 vs. the Cubs, joining Chase Meidroth (7/21 at Tampa Bay) and Kyle Teel (7/23 at Rays) as Sox rookies in a four-game span with four-hit efforts...Teel (7/23 at Tampa Bay) and Quero (7/25 vs. Cubs) also became the sixth pair of catchers since 1901 (only rookies) to record four hits in back-to-back games for the same team and the first since Arizona's Rod Barajas and Chad Moeller from 9/28-29/02 (STATS)...Hit a three-run homer off Seth Johnson on 7/30 vs. Philadelphia to cap a seven-run seventh inning in a 9-3 victory...Went 3-for-5 with a homer, three RBI and two runs scored in a 9-6 victory on 8/12 vs. Detroit … started at catcher and drove in three runs in an 8-0 win on 8/24 vs. Minnesota...Hit his fifth home run on 9/3 at Minnesota and singled to start a game-winning, three-run rally in the ninth inning...Quero and Teel each went 3-for-5 on 9/4 at the Twins, becoming the first rookies in White Sox history to collect three-plus hits as the 1-2 hitters in the lineup (STATS)...Recorded his final multihit effort on 9/17 vs. Baltimore before going 5-33 (.152) over his final nine games...Began the season at Charlotte, where he batted .333/.444/.412 (17-for-51) in 15 games...Preseason Rankings: No. 9 catching prospect and No. 66 overall in baseball and No. 6 prospect in the White Sox organization (MLB.com) … No. 6 prospect and Best Defensive Catcher in the Sox system (BA).
2024
Baseball America after hitting .280/.366/.463 (98-for-350) with 16 doubles, 16 home runs and 70 RBI in 98 games with Class AA Birmingham and Class AAA Charlotte...Was selected to the Southern League All-Star Team…ranked among the SL catching leaders (min. 200 PA) in average (third, .275), home runs (fourth, 12), slugging percentage (fourth, .463), OPS (fourth, .823), RBI (fifth, 53) and on-base percentage (fifth, .360) despite playing in only 72 games...Slashed .346/.422/.603 (27-for-78) with 11 home runs from the right side of the plate and .261/.349/.423 (71-for-272) with five homers from the left side...Played 75 games at catcher (51 with the Barons and 24 with the Knights)…caught 634.2 innings...Began the season with Birmingham and led the Barons pitching staff to a 3.15 ERA , the second-lowest mark among Class AA teams…worked with RHPs Drew Thorpe and Jairo Iriarte and LHPs Ky Bush and Jake Eder, who all made their Major League debuts with the White Sox during the season...Batted .279 (19-for-68) with three doubles, five home runs and a monthly best 21 RBI over 20 games in April…homered twice with a season-high five RBI on 4/12 at Rocket City…homered again on 4/13 at the Trash Pandas...Recorded a seven-game hitting streak from 4/16-23, going 9-for-22 (.409) with two doubles, a homer and six RBI...Batted .356/.414/.600 (32-for-90) with seven doubles, five homers and 14 RBI over 25 games in June…posted eight consecutive multi-hit efforts from 6/1-9...Compiled a season-high, 14-game hitting from 5/30-6/14, slashing .463/.525/.741 (25-for-54) with four home runs and 12 RBI....Was named SL Player of the Week for the period of 6/3-9 after hitting .619 (13-for-21) with two doubles, three home runs, five RBI and six multi-hit efforts in six games...Collected a career-high five hits on 6/18 vs. Montgomery, going 5-for-5 with two doubles and three RBI...Was promoted to Charlotte on 7/4…made his Knights debut that day vs. Jacksonville, hitting a two-run home run…went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBI on 7/27 at Nashville...Hit safely in eight straight games from 7/31-8/10, batting .484 (15-for-31) with two doubles, three homers and eight RBI...Was placed on the injured list on 8/13 with a lower back strain … was reinstated on 9/19 and played in three games the rest of the season...Was part of the White Sox taxi squad for the last two weeks of the season...Preseason Rankings: No. 4 (MLB.com) and No. 5 prospect (BA) in the White Sox organization...No. 9 catching prospect in baseball (MLB.com).
2023
Combined to hit .255/.380/.351 (94-for-368) with 17 doubles, six home runs, 57 RBI, 52 runs scored and 72 walks over 101 games between Class AA Rocket City (Angels) and Class AA Birmingham (White Sox)...Batted .340/.454/.443 (36-for-106) with eight doubles, one home run and 20 RBI from the right side of the plate...Turned 20 on Opening Night (4/6) vs. Chattanooga...Entered the season as the third-youngest player in the Southern League...All 455 of his plate appearances during the season came against older pitchers...Slashed .322/.474/.424 (19-for-59) with six doubles and 12 RBI over 16 games in April...Scored four runs on 4/13 vs. Rocket City...Posted a seven-game hitting streak from 4/16-26 (.440, 11-25)...Went 3-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI on 4/18 vs. Biloxi...Was selected to the American League team at the All-Star Futures Game, going 0-for-3 at Seattle's T-Mobile Park...Was acquired from the Angels on 7/26 with LHP Ky Bush in exchange for RHPs Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López...Made his Barons debut on 7/28 at Biloxi...Batted .313/.395/.478 (21-for-67) with three homers and 18 RBI over 18 games in August...Drove in a run in nine of 10 games to start the month, including seven straight from 8/1-9...Reached base safely in 19 straight games from 7/26-8/23, including a career-best, 14-game hitting streak from 7/29-8/18 (.377, 20-for-53)...Recorded his first career multi-homer game on 8/15 vs. Chattanooga, including a game-ending, two-run shot in the 10th inning...His streak of reaching base safely in each of his first 18 games with the Barons ended on 8/25 at Rocket City...Entered the season ranked by Baseball America as the Angels No. 4 prospect and No. 89 overall prospect in baseball.
2022
Named Angels Minor League Player of the Year and Most Valuable Player of California League after spending entire season at Low-A Inland Empire... Selected as catcher for California League All-Star Team in a vote cast by Cal League managers and was also named by MiLB.com as Angels Organization All-Star... Ranked among California League leaders in doubles (35; T1st), extra-base hits (54; second), total bases (219; third), hits (129; fourth), home runs (sixth; 17), RBI (75; sixth), walks (73; ninth) and runs (86; ninth)... During a 70 game stretch from May 28 - Sept. 2, hit .360 (96/267) with 28 doubles, one triple, 14 home runs, 56 RBI and 12 stolen bases... Behind the plate, caught 25% (29/116) of would-be base stealers.
