Giancarlo Stanton became a monster doing what ‘most hitters’ won’t

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Giancarlo Stanton, the best hitter in the National League last season and newest Yankees slugger, taught himself how to hit. “He is a self-made hitter,’’ Jeff Pentland said Thursday. “He was a football guy playing baseball. He made himself into a hitter.’’ Pentland, the Yankees’ hitting coach in 2015, was...