Mark Harris placed a baseball on the dirt a few feet in front of Johnny Giavotella and instructed him the same way he might a child, pausing between each bit of basic information.
Read the ball. Move your right foot. Move your left foot. Field the ball.
That was in June 2008, during Giavotella's first week in professional baseball. The Kansas City Royals had selected the second baseman in the second round and sent him to Class A in Iowa, where Harris, then a minor league infield coordinator, encountered a talented offensive prospect with an alarming defensive background.