Players that bat left but throw right, like Josh Pearson

Righties that are left leg or left eye dominant.
Smaller kids growing up... more contact hitters gaining the extra steps towards first base.
Most of the population is right handed and throws right handed, so better matchups as a lefty.

Lots of benefits, but you have to start early.

You still use both hands, and it’s not like

I guess the idea is that your guiding the bat more with your dominant hand, but it don’t think a right handed swing is something so inherently right handed that you can’t learn it in reverse if you state doing that

the real question is why isn’t John a lhh

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bat left but throw right

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That’s me. I can’t explain it. It was just instinctive to me when I started playing. No one showed me or encouraged it.

I’m left eye dominant and right handed. Never knew to switch my hitting side. Darts, pool, and shooting are tough for me.

He’s probably a natural lefty that learned to throw RH as a kid to give him more options to play on the field.

All I can tell you is hitting right handed to me feels completely foreign. Swinging a golf club right handed feels completely foreign. I always felt being left handed gave me an advantage picking up the pitches from majority right handed pitchers. Plus I was always closer to 1st base when running.

I swing a bat and golf club left handed but I'm right handed. I just learned that way and always batted on the left. Each of my pawpaw's claim credit to it happening, but no one knows why for sure

That sort of random ambidexterity exists in our family. My mom bowled left, but wrote with her right hand and wrote right handed

I have a cousin that kicks right footed but catches left-handed.

The only thing I do opposite hand is I shoot pool left-handed. I don’t know why and I didn’t even know I was shooting left-handed until someone pointed that out to me when I was about 10 years old. It feels a little different right handed, but I can shoot equally as well.

Some depends on eye dominance and comfort. Some kids just pick it up and swing that way better.

There is solid science to batting opposite of throwing hand. Your dominant hand is stronger, and that puts your dominant hand out in front.

Both my boys throw right and bat left. (And are very solid.) I do make them take cuts on the right side to keep muscles active. But the oldest has reached a point now where he is probably good enough to start batting switch in games.

He has a beautiful swing on the left side, but if you'd never seen him swing from the left and watched him in the cage from the right you wouldn't notice.

I do everything right handed, except when it comes to shooting a gun, bow, something where I have to actually aim. I'm left eye dominant, everything in my right eye is a blur