If the content of this column is to be proven valid, it will take years, and require that Salvador Perez be less than halfway through his time as a major-league baseball player.
It will require him to remain healthy, remain leaner, and remain at catcher for as long as possible. It will require him to stay focused and motivated, to continue a journey from awful plate discipline to at least mediocre plate discipline.
It will require him to prove that the first half of his fifth full season as the Royals’ catcher is not just the best of his life so far, but something closer to his new normal as he enters what should be the height of his career.