What do you do when you are a professional baseball player stuck inside a small apartment, and you don’t have access to training facilities or equipment to work on your baseball skills, and you want to stay in shape while waiting for a season to possibly return? If you’re Matt Beaty and Edwin Rios, you buy pinto beans.
“We actually, at the grocery store, bought some dry pinto beans, and we’re going to work on our hand-eye coordination,” Beaty told David Vassegh during Dodger Talk on Tuesday evening. “[We] throw beans at each other, and just work on, ya know, just kind of the hand-eye coordination and just have fun.