most switch hitters are right handed. why?

Question

my question is would it be more difficult for left handed batter to become switch hitter?

Answer 1

Most people are right handed. Laws of probability.

Answer 2

The reason is that left handed hitters have a slight advantage. People who throw right handed (which is most pitchers) the pitches tend to break toward the batter, which is easier to adjust to then pitches breaking away. The batter can also see the ball better in theory. That is why it is easier for a righty to hit a lefty...

So, a good way to take advantage of this is to switch hit to give the batter that advantage. Since most pitchers are right handed lefties tend not to need to switch hit. There are a few exceptions.

There are some odd balls too, like Rickey Henderson who hit righty but caught lefty. He started as a switch hitter but found he was far better as a righty and stayed a righty.

Answer 3

Because there are more right handed hitters in the world. Here is an example. So there are 100 left handed hitters and 200 right handed hitters. If half of the right handed hitters are switch and half the left handed hitter are switch then there are 50 left handed switch hitters. And there are 100 right handed switch hitters.
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Answer 4

It is because of only 1 in 10 people are left handed. Personally I am left handed and people saying it is harder for a lefty to use their right hand are wrong since we live n a right handed world all lefties have to learn to adapt to the world. I would say it is easier for a lefty to be able to switch but look at the numbers with only 10% of us being left handed if you look at these my team has 4 switch hitters and 1 is left handed would mean 25% of the team is and it seems that the righties are higher when in all reality the lefties actually are on the team because there are so few lefties in the world.

Answer 5

Because most pitchers are right-handed (most people are right handed), there are more naturally right handed batters.

Because it is normally easier for a left handed batter to hit against a right handed hitter, they already have a natural advantage.

Conversely, a right handed hitter has a disadvantage batting against the right handed pitchers so it makes sense for them to spend the time required to become a switch hitter.

Answer 6

A hitter might routinely bat proper exceeded against a lefty because of the fact a circulate pitch i.e. a curveball is toughest to hit while it breaks removed from you so that they choose it to break in. For a knuckleballer that's impossible, even for the pitcher, to be responsive to the place the ball is going so consequently a swap hitter dealing with a lefty might bat left exceeded because of the fact they might see the ball longer and greater appropriate and with a bit of luck effectively music it and get a fulfillment.

Answer 7

Most people are right handed naturally. They start to learn to switch hit to get to the majors where a left handed bat is a premium.

Answer 8

I would think that it would be equally as easy for lefties to learn to swing both ways. After all, both have to learn to swing both the normal way and the reversed way.

The reason most switch-hitters are righties is that most pitchers are righties. Therefore, learning to hit lefty is more advantageous than learning to hit righty.

Also, there are more righties in the world to begin with, so there will be more righty switch-hitters, more righty pitchers, more righty outfielders, etc. (89% of people are right-handed.)

Answer 9

It usually depends on their throwing hand. If they Bat/Throw Switch/Right, they usually come from the right side of the plate. But an uncommon way to Bat/Throw is Switch/Left, with only a couple of people having this combination (Lance Berkman, Melky, Wandy Rodriguez, etc.) it means they most likely bat better left-handed. But it's strange, I always see people who can bat better right-handed batting lefty.

Answer 10

No it wouldn't be harder. But the reason so many righties become left-proficient is that this gives right-handed pitchers a harder time - and since most pitchers are righties, this is where most of the "damage" needs to be done.