How Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior influenced Eric Lauer at the beginning of his pro career
For a 20-year-old Eric Lauer, fresh out of Kent State University in 2016, talking pitching with Mark Prior made the big leagues feel closer. “We were so young,” Lauer said in a conversation with The Times, “that it was kind of funny, because everybody was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Mark Prior.’ ” Prior, the … Read more