What advice does Chris Holt give D.L. Hall and Grayson Rodriguez for this off season?

[Jim'sKid26]

Aside from stating the obvious; stay healthy, stay in shape, stay focused.

What are the specifics that he should be given both of these young prospects to prepare them for a possible role in the rotation in 2023?

[Sports Guy]

2 words....fastball command

[DrungoHazewood]

Don't fall asleep in any tanning beds.  Don't punch any judges in Aruba. If someone asks you to move an air conditioner, just say no.  Stay out of the House of David barnstorming tours.  When a strange but beautiful woman you met on a train calls you up and asks if you're going to be the best ever in the game, run away. Common sense stuff.

Edited October 7, 2022 by DrungoHazewood

[Jim'sKid26]

6 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Don't fall asleep in any tanning beds.  Don't punch any judges in Aruba. If someone asks you to move an air conditioner, just say no.  Stay out of the House of David barnstorming tours.  When a strange but beautiful woman you met on a train calls you up and asks if you're going to be the best ever in the game, run away. Common sense stuff.

I know you love to do this stuff and you are quite remarkably good at it. Unfortunately I will now be digging through various sources of baseball lore to find the references.... Thanks, Buddy. 

[Jim'sKid26]

21 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

2 words....fastball command

Ironically, according to Baseball Savant, DL Hall's changeup may be his best pitch. FB Whiff % = 24.6, CU whiff %=38.5; FB Putaway% =17%, CU PA%=38%. Oh, and his next best Whiff% pitch is his slider @ 34.3%. (I am acknowledging a small sample size). 

There might be more to his success than FB command. 

[SteveA]

15 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Don't fall asleep in any tanning beds.  Don't punch any judges in Aruba. If someone asks you to move an air conditioner, just say no.  Stay out of the House of David barnstorming tours.  When a strange but beautiful woman you met on a train calls you up and asks if you're going to be the best ever in the game, run away. Common sense stuff.

never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.

[owknows]

Pitch well next year

[AnythingO's]

52 minutes ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

I know you love to do this stuff and you are quite remarkably good at it. Unfortunately I will now be digging through various sources of baseball lore to find the references.... Thanks, Buddy. 

First 2 prob Marty Cordova and Sir Sid Ponson, last might be the Natural with Redford. Then there is Pete Harnish stepping on a nail in a construction zone

[RZNJ]

Simple.  Come into camp in the best shape of your life and do whatever throwing program (if any) the team has designed for you.  Keep in touch.   

[SpOkane]

Practice making the ball look good coming out of your hand.

[Roll Tide]

Pitching efficiency, throw strikes, and get through 6.

[byrdz]

Marty Cordova remains sunburn to this day and I’ll never get the drunk party pic of Ponson out of my head.

[Moose Milligan]

2 hours ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

I know you love to do this stuff and you are quite remarkably good at it. Unfortunately I will now be digging through various sources of baseball lore to find the references.... Thanks, Buddy. 

A @DrungoHazewoodreference guide:

Don't fall asleep in any tanning beds. = Marty Cordova

Don't punch any judges in Aruba.  = Sidney Ponson

If someone asks you to move an air conditioner, just say no. = Mark Smith, I think.

Stay out of the House of David barnstorming tours.  = this isn't a really bad one, so I'm not sure why it's here.  But lots of players in the 20s and 30s barnstormed in the offseason for this House of David commune where they all wore long hair.  Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, etc.  

When a strange but beautiful woman you met on a train calls you up and asks if you're going to be the best ever in the game, run away. = The Natural. But the beautiful woman in this particular case was a young Kim Basinger so...you know, it might be okay.  

3 hours ago, Sports Guy said:

2 words....fastball command

aka repeatable delivery.

 

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

When a strange but beautiful woman you met on a train calls you up and asks if you're going to be the best ever in the game, run away. = The Natural. But the beautiful woman in this particular case was a young Kim Basinger so...you know, it might be okay. 

Kim Basinger was later on, Pop's niece (?) when Hobbs was the 36-year-old rookie.  Barbara Hershey met him as a young man and shot him, based on the Eddie Waitkus story.  Can't really go wrong either way.

[RZNJ]

1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Kim Basinger was later on, Pop's niece (?) when Hobbs was the 36-year-old rookie.  Barbara Hershey met him as a young man and shot him, based on the Eddie Waitkus story.  Can't really go wrong either way.

I know what you mean but I'd rather get shot by Kim Basinger than Barbara Hershey.