Take a minute, if you will, and try to sit in a catcher’s squat for 10 minutes straight. After you make some unnerving grunts and groans on your way back to your computer to continue reading this post, try it again but also shove a knife right into that tendon behind your ankle.
That’s exactly what Roberto Pérez did (metaphorically, of course) for 118 games this season. It was his first season of guaranteed playing time, and he managed to play well enough to some noticeable hardware.
Roberto Pérez said it felt like a knife was poking at his ankle since April due to bone spurs.