Switch Pitcher likes it from both sides

Here's a video of NY Yankees AA Prospect Jim Vinditte, an ambidextrous pitcher. Half of me is shaking my head that the Yankees would draft a publicity stunt guy like this, and the other half of me hopes he makes it the major leagues just so the Video Games have to have some f'ed up coding embedded that allows you to switch after every at bat.

Added below is an 8 minute ordeal with Vinditte where he faces a switch hitter, the result is the two parties switching sides more times than in a San Francisco menage-a-trois. Ultimately, the ruling handed down is that the pitcher has the final say since a batter must remain "in the box" (yes, sports are full of euphemisms) after a pitcher has set his position.



and for those of you wondering about the strategic advantages of an ambidextrous hurler... feel free to read the following sabermetrics post, obviously written by a virgin with too much time on his hands.