Shohei Ohtani arrives Sunday at the end of a tedious recovery, 21 months from scalpel to big-league mound, a trying experience that may have stripped 200 or more innings from the remarkable career he intends to build here.
On the bright side, he set an all-time record for hits and home runs by a pitcher rehabilitating from Tommy John surgery.
He has circled back to Oakland, where he took his first swing as a major leaguer and Los Angeles Angel, then three days later threw his first pitch,…
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