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The have long been known Darren Waller Jersey for their creativity and being opportunistic. Most recently, they pioneered the "opener" pitching strategy that has since spread acro s the league. Tampa Bay's latest trick is turning their players into switch-hitters.Sunday afternoon against the ( ), noted left-handed hitter turned around and batted right-handed against Toronto southpaw . Choi struck out in his first at-bat as a righty but went deep next time up. It was a bomb too. Statcast has it at 429 feet and Richard Seymour Jersey 110 mph off the bat. As a lefty, Choi did not hit a ball over 100.7 mph in 2019.To be clear, Choi hitting right-handed did not happen randomly Sunday. He toyed around with it during batting practice in summer camp, and he did switch-hit a bit in the minors years ago. But not until Sunday did Choi hit right-handed in a big league game. The Rays were not expected to let him hit righty in regular season, so apparently something has changed. "I don't really foresee that coming in any way," manager Kevin Cash told reporters, , earlier this month. Marcus Allen Jersey "I just think where he's at in his career from a Theo Riddick Jersey confidence standpoint, he's willing to me s around with it. We got an opportunity in this setting to work through some timing."Choi, 29, hit .274/.377/.492 against right-handed pitchers last season but only .210/.309/.321 against lefties as a left-handed hitter. Truth be told, the Rays K.J. Wright Jersey don't really need him to hit lefties. and even are available as right-handed platoon partners. But hey, if Choi can make it work, why not? It sure worked Sunday. "I'm the best hitter on the team, so it's not surprising ... Just kidding," Choi jokingly told reporters, including Toribio, when asked why he was batting righty in summer camp.