Pat Venditte's Dodger career was brief but memorable. The only full-time switch-pitcher in MLB history pitched 15 regular season games for Los Angeles in 2018.

Venditte actually began the season with Triple-A Oklahoma City after having made 41 major league appearances with the Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays to that point in his career.

As he recalled in a recent social media post, Venditte might not have made it back to the big leagues at all without a bit of tough love from Los Angeles Dodgers pitching coach Mark Prior.

Prior "had the most hurtful and most valuable exit interview advice I ever received," Venditte wrote in a post to his LinkedIn account .

"Dave Roberts, Rick Honeycutt, and Andrew Friedman had nice praise for a solid Spring Training," Venditte said. "Mark was short and to the point."

"He was the last to talk," Venditte continued.…