No Juice Podcast #32: Cole DeVries

"The big thing that pitching coaches are told when you get to pro ball is not to hurt anyone," DeVries told the No Juice Podcast on his sentiments towards pitching coaches and their influence over the staff in light of the recent hiring of Neil Allen as the Twins pitching coach.

"If it was someone who I knew how to help correct the problem I had is that you use [the pitching coach] when you are in a slump. Because when you are going good, you don’t need anyone’s help. You know what you are doing, everything’s working for those two, three, four or five starts but when you go on the other half of that and you are just getting killed every time you are going out, that’s when I always tried to lean on that pitching coach.”

He also spoke about his interactions with Rick Anderson, providing insight into how some pitchers approach their game.

“I was never much of a big video guy because I would go more off feel," DeVries said. "If something felt off. Because I knew exactly how my body had to feel in order to execute a pitch in certain location. So where I started to have trouble was when I couldn’t feel what I was doing, if things kind of felt numb or my body was all over the place. And so that’s why I never really watched very much video: because there is no feel in video. That’s why I always had to iron my things out in bullpen.”

Devries, who retired after the 2013 season, talked about his injuries and decision to retire. Listen below, on iTunes or on Stitcher: