A Team Venezuela cap atop his head, a hooded sweatshirt on his back, Salvador Perez strolled into the interview room on the first floor of Kauffman Stadium on Monday afternoon. Making his first public comments since going on the disabled list on Sunday, Perez offered no visible signs of discomfort and no noticeable pain stemming from a strained intercostal muscle in his right side.
Yet as he sat down in a chair and leaned toward a microphone, he conceded that the pain was still present and still significant.
“Yesterday was a little pain … ” he said.