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Switch pitching

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Since I’ve been talking about quirky baseball ideas like the intentional balk, I should mention that one of my favourite ideas ever is the switch pitcher, perhaps because I had to learn to be ambidextrous at one point in my life. Here’s a piece on Greg Harris, the last man to pitch from both sides.

I mentioned it on SoSH, which sparked a mini-discussion of the idea. I still don’t quite know why it would be an insult to the game to switch-pitch.