{"id":2245047,"date":"2026-01-22T04:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2245047"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:39:21","slug":"hitting-coach-explains-how-former-royals-star-carlos-beltran-became-a-switch-hitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hitting-coach-explains-how-former-royals-star-carlos-beltran-became-a-switch-hitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitting Coach Explains how Former Royals Star Carlos Beltran Became a Switch-Hitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“They said, ‘Hey, we’ve got an idea… There’s a kid down there, 20 years old, his name is Carlos Beltran,'” Long said. “‘He’s a right-handed hitter only, and we want you to go down there and teach him how to hit left-handed.’ I said, well, hold on, this is during the middle of the season. He’s in High-A… I said ‘I’ll gladly go down there and give it a shot, but don’t you think this is a little far-fetched?’ They said, ‘Well, this is what we want to do as an organization, and we think you’re the perfect guy to do it.'”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“They said, ‘Hey, we’ve got an idea… There’s a kid down there, 20 years old, his name is Carlos Beltran,’” Long said. “‘He’s a right-handed hitter only, and we want you to go down there and teach him how to hit left-handed.’ I said, well, hold on, this is during the middle of the season. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2245048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Hitting-Coach-Explains-how-Former-Royals-Star-Carlos-Beltran-Became.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245049,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245047\/revisions\/2245049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}