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Anonymous
Switch pitching is a cool idea. But I have a better idea.

Let's say you have a righty pitcher on the mound, and then you have a lefty pitcher play first base. If a good match-up comes up, you just switch the two. No warm-up, don't have to take anybody out of the game. I don't see any rule that says that once a pitcher leaves the mound, he can't go pitch again, so I don't see the problem with having more than one pitcher out there.
>> Alakazam !!OEP6m59Bksc
Wouldn't work. No sane manager would want two pitchers hitting in the same lineup, and you would be limiting yourself to how many pitchers would be available to start, meaning teams would have to start using 10 starters.
>> Anonymous
>>306238

OP. The line-up concern is valid, except that if I were the manager of this team, my pitchers would not be coddled little babies who don't have to take BP. Anyway, the concept is clearly defensive, and hopefully the set-up is limiting runs to an extent that the offensive drop-off doesn't lose games.

As for the rotation, any given team has pitchers who pitch more often than every five days. A good long reliever (if there is such a thing) can pitch three innings a day on consecutive days, even. It's a little weird, and maybe it wouldn't work all the time, but if you can get through a game on less than 150 pitches, and those two pitchers aren't getting shelled, you'll end up using less pitchers than if you went through a whole middle relief set-up.
>> HKK !h7MHU9L/Oo
Who's the guy in OP's pic?
>> Anonymous
You suck OP for not giving the name of the Ambidextrous pitcher.
>> Anonymous
Pat Venditte
>> Anonymous
That guy is definitely a natural righthander. His dad probably taught him to pitch lefty.
>> Anonymous
Hes in the yankees farm system

he faced a switch hitter this year and hilarity ensued when they kept switching position, they acually had to create a rule to keep this kinda predicament in check

the pitcher chooses which arm to throw with, leaving the batter to choose to switch right/left handed
>> Anonymous
This is retarded, when I was in high school we had a kid that could throw with both arms. He had to go into the scorecard as two different people, a righty pitcher, and a lefty pitcher. If he switched in the game, he could switch one more time, but no more, as per high school rules (starter can return to their position after substitution, but afterward, he can't go back if switched out again).
>> Anonymous
Brooks Kieshnick or whatever was ambidextrous. He was awsome at the college WS many years ago then was on the Cubs for a bit.
>> Anonymous
Baseball is so fucking retarded.

OH MY GOD HE'S PITCHING WITH A DIFFERENT HAND. HE'S A NEW PERSON!