It doesn't seem like he plays against great competition, but it sure would be entertaining to have an ambidextrous pitcher.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/h...-wi?urn=highschool-wp924
http://rivals.yahoo.com/h...-wi?urn=highschool-wp924
Cohen should sign this guy.
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He throws in the mid 80's and is topping out at 91- that's an SEC type fastball for sure. It's like getting two pitchers for one.
If I remember correctly, I think they said a pitcher is allowed to switch pitching hands once in the middle ofa game.I can't rememberif that's true or not but I thought that's what I remembered. I think that's been within the last decade or so.Having someone able to do that in the middle of a game would be pretty cool. Get in a tight situation, have a couple of lefties coming up, and just switch to throwing left handed for the better matchup. </p>
other than Greg Harris, so I'm not sure what the MLB rule is, but unless I'm mistaken, the pitcher has to declare what hand he is going to throw to before the batter comes up to the plate. The rule I'm talking about is for college.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080620&content_id=2969030&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
Said Vindette and the switch hitter kept going back and forth between which side they were going to approach from. If Vindette switched his glove lefty, the batter would go lefty, which would then force Vindette to go righty, and so on and so forth. They kept going back and forth and the managers and umps eventually had a meeting and made them both go right handed. Dude struck out on 3 pitches.
The article says there is no rule about this in the MLB handbook, but there is one in the Professional Baseball Umpire Corporation handbook. A pitcher can change once per at bat. That's pretty advantageous for the pitcher in my opinion. This article was a pretty interesting read.
Said Vindette and the switch hitter kept going back and forth between which side they were going to approach from. If Vindette switched his glove lefty, the batter would go lefty, which would then force Vindette to go righty, and so on and so forth. They kept going back and forth and the managers and umps eventually had a meeting and made them both go right handed. Dude struck out on 3 pitches.
The article says there is no rule about this in the MLB handbook, but there is one in the Professional Baseball Umpire Corporation handbook. A pitcher can change once per at bat. That's pretty advantageous for the pitcher in my opinion. This article was a pretty interesting read.
<font size="1" face="TTE595CF58t00"><font size="1" face="TTE595CF58t00"><p align="left">f) A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runners</p><p align="left">the hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove</p><p align="left">on the other hand while touching the pitcher’s plate. The pitcher is not permitted</p><p align="left">to pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner,</p><p align="left">the inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs</p><p align="left">an injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because</p><p align="left">he has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game,</p><p align="left">pitch with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given</p><p align="left">the opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands.</p>
Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.
</p></font></font>I haven't looked, but i assume there's no rule forbidding the hitter from switching sides of the plate within an atbat. So the pitcher must declare his side, and the batter can then choose. Advantage for switch hitters, but advantage to the switch pitcher against the rest.
Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.
</p></font></font>I haven't looked, but i assume there's no rule forbidding the hitter from switching sides of the plate within an atbat. So the pitcher must declare his side, and the batter can then choose. Advantage for switch hitters, but advantage to the switch pitcher against the rest.
..What if an ambidextrous pitcher could throw bb's with one arm, but had awesome control and ball-movement with the other arm? The control guy could pitch for a solid 8 innings, then he could relieve himself in the ninth with his blazing fastball.
that they figure it's hard enough to pitch in MLB with one hand as it is, that they would rather you just stick with one hand. Of course, MLB also isn't real receptive to dual position guys like Brooks Kieshneck tried to do with the Brewers a few years ago, so it could also be from not being open to new ideas. Imagine if Babe Ruth had been a dual position guy- like a RF/closer.