First-base coach Stubby Clapp is the coach most in charge of base running and he said his plan was to show Wong some numbers, relative to the leads he needs to take off first.

Clapp wants Wong “to be where he needs to be (from the bag), and where he’s got that reaction time to go either way.

“When you don’t use it, you lose the knack of getting jumps and reads and stuff like that. We’re just trying to rebuild that confidence. The more you do it, the better you get at the reads and the more information you have on pitchers and tendencies,” said Clapp.

While on the coaching lines, Clapp will be timing all the pitchers’ deliveries to the plate and noting their moves to first. “It doesn’t matter how fast you are,” he said. “If the numbers don’t add up, you can’t go. You can’t beat time.

“But when you get that kind of speed on the base paths, it causes havoc with pitchers.”

Brock had one other piece of advice and it was about the slide. He would prefer the popup method, which he patented, but which has given way to the headfirst slide.