Los Angeles Angels general manager Billy Eppler said Wednesday that two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani would have already been cleared to bat as a designated hitter if the American League club wasn't also aiming for him to pitch again this season.Ohtani, who entered the disabled list earlier this month with a Grade 2 sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, received injections of platelet-rich plasma and stem cells on June 7 and will be re-evaluated by the team's medical staff on Thursday."(Our doctors) have said from the outset that if he was solely a DH, he would have been clea…READ FULL ARTICLE
