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Just two years ago, some in the baseball industry still believed Shohei Ohtani should focus on either hitting or pitching. Jeremy Reed, the Angels’ hitting coach at the time, took the opposite position, saying Ohtani thrived on doing both.
Reed, whom the Angels fired after last season, maintains the best version of Ohtani is the two-way version. But if Ohtani, because of a torn UCL, is forced to become only a hitter again for an…
