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Heard this all on the radio today in the last innings of the Tigers verses A's third game.. He was drafted by the Yankees in 2008 and low and behold he can throw with both arms..
I guess he has improved everywhere he has pitched but since he is a soft tosser he has has not had much of a shot in the bigs.. Just interesting to here Jim and Dan tale about him today.. Kid has great stats at Nashville this year..
There is a rule for him called the The Pat Venditte Rule.
Venditte's rare ambidextrous abilities prompted the Professional Baseball Umpire Corporation (PBUC) to issue a new rule for dealing with ambidextrous pitchers, limiting the number of times that a switch-pitcher and switch-hitter can change sides during one at-bat. After consulting with a variety of sources, including the Major League Baseball Rules Committee, the PBUC issued its new guidelines on July 3, 2008. [33] OBR Rule 8.01(f) currently reads:
A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runners the hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove on the other hand while touching the pitcher’s plate. The pitcher is not permitted to pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner, the inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs an injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because he has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game, pitch with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given the opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands. Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.[34]
Both NCAA and the National Federation of High School (NFHS) have adopted similar rules. NCAA rule 9-2k and NFHS rule 6-1-1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Venditte
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=vendit001pat
I guess he has improved everywhere he has pitched but since he is a soft tosser he has has not had much of a shot in the bigs.. Just interesting to here Jim and Dan tale about him today.. Kid has great stats at Nashville this year..
There is a rule for him called the The Pat Venditte Rule.
Venditte's rare ambidextrous abilities prompted the Professional Baseball Umpire Corporation (PBUC) to issue a new rule for dealing with ambidextrous pitchers, limiting the number of times that a switch-pitcher and switch-hitter can change sides during one at-bat. After consulting with a variety of sources, including the Major League Baseball Rules Committee, the PBUC issued its new guidelines on July 3, 2008. [33] OBR Rule 8.01(f) currently reads:
A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runners the hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove on the other hand while touching the pitcher’s plate. The pitcher is not permitted to pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner, the inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs an injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because he has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game, pitch with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given the opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands. Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.[34]
Both NCAA and the National Federation of High School (NFHS) have adopted similar rules. NCAA rule 9-2k and NFHS rule 6-1-1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Venditte
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=vendit001pat
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