Starting tomorrow for the next 3 days, I will be an honorary Mets fan.
Please bring the Brewers back down from space, Reds need to close that gap.
Also, lol Cubs, eat shit, get swept
Cubs gave up after the last series, so your eat shit comments have no impact.
noob baseball question -
Ohtani bats left handed and pitches right handed. I’ve noticed quite a few players bat left handed and throw right handed. How does this happen? Are good baseball prospects just practice batting left handed to have an edge, even though they are naturally right handed?
I’m left handed and it sounds impossible to me to throw right handed
I believe switch hitting is MUCH easier to learn than switch throwing
I’m no Ohtani, but that’s how I grew up playing too. Just naturally threw right handed and batted left handed. Also throw a frisbee left handed, but play golf right handed.
Normally a right handed person. Learns to bat left at an early age in order to increase chance of a successful athletic career.
Interesting. I’m a lefty but I golf right handed. Probably because I didn’t have access to lefty clubs.
Phil Mickelson, incidentally, is the exact opposite. He golfs lefty but is right handed at everything else.
In most things I’m a righty with a little bit of ambidexterity.
No idea why I batted left handed, though I was a decent little league hitter. Played baseball up to age 12 then switched to golf at age 13, and became a decent junior golfer. Swinging righty felt more natural, and those were the clubs I had available, so that’s what I went with.
I bat left and throw right.
I am pretty strongly left-handed.
The ONLY reason I learned to throw right-handed was the utter lack of left-handed gloves when I was a kid.
You might want to book a therapy session for the 4th day.
Left handed throwers are restricted to playing first base, the outfield or pitcher. Right handed throwers can play anywhere. And there’s a greater percentage of righty pitchers, so that could encourage some kids to learn to bat left-handed or to switch hit.
I’m a natural lefty - throw lefty (was a pitcher), write lefty, shoot a basketball, left is my dominant ear. I do a bunch of things righty, though: bat, bowl, golf, kick, and wipe.
My brother is the weirdo. He’s a lefty at everything EXCEPT throwing. I remember when he was little, my parents got him a lefty baseball glove and when we played, he insisted he didn’t throw with his left hand. We told him he was wrong because he was obviously a lefty. Sure enough, after a few days, we realized he was…right.
My son writes lefty but throws righty. I have him batting lefty to ensure he makes the big leagues. It turns out you need some talent too. Dang. He’s pretty naturally ambidextrous though. He throws like crap with either arm. Theres still hope for my younger son who while very right handed I also have batting lefty because his left eye vision is pretty poor.
I do think there’s something to sports like baseball and hockey though. Training your non dominant hand seems a lot easier when you have both hands on the object.
Yeah I really struggled with my son who while very left handed kept insisting he threw with his right. I delayed buying him a glove for a couple years just to make 100% sure he knew.
This I think explains a lot of the mixed way of doing things, particularly for natural lefties.
I throw lefty, bat righty (but could passably bat lefty), play guitar righty, can handwrite lefty and righty (or could when I was young, now I can barely scratch with either hand), and play hockey righty. I figure I took different approaches based on who was teaching me and the equipment available. (I think schools tried to force me to write righty, which is how I ended up doing both.)
Lots of euro hockey kids learn to play left handed even if they are right handed
Something about the dominate hand
Nadal is also right handed and learned to play left handed.