Angels hitting coach Brady Anderson faces challenge of reducing strikeouts
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Since Brady Anderson’s last year as a full-time member of the Baltimore Orioles’ front office in 2019, he had worked on the fringes of the sport, helping individual hitters here and there. When the Angels offered him a job to dive back in full time, as their hitting coach, he accepted with the belief that he was “ready to devote everything in my life to this.” The challenge he accepted comes with a significant hurdle. He’s now in charge of a group that struck out at a historically high rate last season, which means that is question No. 1 for anyone interested in Anderson’s plans. Anderson bristles at the notion of any one-size-fits-all philosophy to correcting the...