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Switch-hitting should be impossible, but Mariners' Cal Raleigh just makes it look historic

If you really stop and think about it, being a switch-hitter at the major league level should be just about impossible.

Hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports, and MLB pitching is more overpowering and filthy than it's ever been. So just to make it a bit more challenging, how about sometimes going to the plate from one side with one set of mechanics, and other times flipping it around.

Back in the day, a travel baseball coach of mine whose son was a switch-hitter said it took three times the swings to get the proper reps to be a good switch-hitter. If you just doubled up, the mechanics wouldn't stick enough, because they'd meld into one another. There neede

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