Most people have heard of him by now, Yankees prospect switch-pitcher Pat Venditte . Switch pitcher means he can throw with both his right and left hands, and so far in his Yankee career he’s done so quite well with both arms putting up a 2.34 FIP as a right hander and a 2.26 FIP as a lefty.
Well Venditte is scheduled to be a guest on Yankees Daily’s blogtalkradio show on March 16 and it got me thinking about Venditte.
Not only is it exciting to see someone use both hands while on the mound he’s one of the nicest people I’ve met in my young career as a journalist.
He also was a big part of one of the funniest moments I’ve seen on the baseball field: the first time a switch-pitcher faced a switch-hitter in a professional regular season game (Roy White faced a s ...
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Video of Yankees Prospect Pat Venditte Against a Switch Hitter
Posted: 14th March 2010 by Bronx Baseball Daily in MLBComments Off on Video of Yankees Prospect Pat Venditte Against a Switch Hitter