CINCINNATI — Hours before first pitch Wednesday at Great American Ball Park, Tommy Edman and some teammates were talking about his latest potential switcheroo.
How possible would it be, they wondered, for him to bat left-handed in his first at-bat against a right-handed starter and then, in his next at-bat, upend the scouting report and send the opposing team’s dugout scrambling by coming up right-handed?
“It could make sense,” Edman said.
It’s the logical evolution of how he’s already starting to redefine what it means to be a switch-hitter – if only there was a name for it.