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No detailed training here, I can't live up to that. I'm a consumer of what you all master and offer in these pages, and if I can ask the right questions, and get the right answers, I'll be happy.
It would be interesting for someone who is so inclined to do a study of catchers who broke into the bigs at age 22, offered an OPS+ of 88 or more through the first 600 or so PAs, and went downhill from there. My guess is that it would be a very rare occurence. And I would suspect that the list of 22-23 year old catchers who skyrocketed from what they produced in those "peak" years would be pretty impressive. Probably would have to control for those catchers who make the all star game as rookies, only to get taken out by ugly injuries from aggressive showboats diving into home plate to score the winning run. I'd like to run the numbers myself, if I weren't all thumbs when it came to using b-ref tools.