Talk:Switch hitter

message: For instance, New York Yankees great Mickey Mantle always considered himself a better right-handed hitter, but actually has more home runs batting left-handed. But it could be argued that this claim is misleading as many of Mantle's left-handed home runs were struck at Yankee Stadium, a park notorious for being very friendly to left-handed hitters due to the short right field porch.
This could also be misleading because a switch hitter typically bats far more often against Right handed pitchers resulting in higher cumulative totals as a left handed hitter. --Cglied 19:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading

message: Isn't Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves a switch-hitter, and one of the more accomplished ones? Zeus982 21:02, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chipper Jones

message: *The article mentions "Hall of Fame-caliber switch hitters" -- how many are there, just out of curiosity? I can think of Mickey Mantle and Eddie Murray -- are they the only two?The Invisible Man (talk) 00:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Early Wynn was a switch-hitting pitcher, a Hall-of-Fame pitcher and a relatively good hitter. He coul be added to the list of bats-both pitchers. WHPratt (talk) 05:24, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Mr. Wynn could win not only with his pitching and his exceptional fielding, but also with his bat. In the league's pre-designated-hitter days, the switch-hitting hurler hit over .270 four times, including 1946, when he hit .319 for the Senators. He also made 90 appearances as a pinch-hitter, and he once hit a pinch-hit, grand slam home run." -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1999/04/07/baseball-hall-of-famer-early-wynn-dies-at-79/275d587f-e290-436f-b1ec-e903bc1a92eb/
WHPratt (talk) 01:54, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Hall of Fame Switch Hitters

message: This whole section is factually very dubious.
Firstly, the 'switch-hit' in cricket is simply an extension of the 'reverse sweep', the main difference being that the hands are swapped over before the shot is played.
Kevin Pietersen may well have claimed to have invented the shot, but it has been done before, notably by Jonty Rhodes against the bowling of Shane Warne. In addition, the ODI against NZ was not the first time Pietersen had played the shot, having done so, also against Warne, in 2005.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.140.209.154 (talk) 11:30, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  "Switch-hitting" is a meaningless concept in cricket, because there is no plate that batsmen have to decide which side to stand on.  I'm removing the whole section. Lfh (talk) 11:20, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: An anonymous editor clearly has strong feelings about keeping this section, so let's give it a go, but I'm editing it to make clear that "switch hitting" in cricket is not the same thing as in baseball. Lfh (talk) 16:36, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cricket

message: It's an interesting fact (well, at least to me, which is why it's here and not in the article) that professional baseballs only current switch pitcher (Pat Venditte) bats exclusively right handed. There is an interview with him somewhere where he says it, but I can't find it right now. Since he's an AL player it's pretty useless info, but his one pro AB so far was right handed. Cryomaniac (talk) 19:08, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pat Venditte's page on the Creighton University website says he was a switch hitter in college (Bats: B; Throws: B). His official Minor League Baseball page (on milb.com) says he bats right and throws left, so that's plainly inaccurate. I agree with Cryomaniac that Venditte's batting is an interesting fact--and worthy of inclusion in the main article. He's not playing at all just now because of the right arm surgery, so the answer is currently indeterminate. The question remains: How does Pat bat? --Danaxtell (talk) 04:37, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting fact