he didn't think the ball was going to land on the infield. he thought it was going to be foul initially.
Your responses tell me I haven't been clear about what I'm trying to say. 60 players in the history of the game have batted right but throw left handed. In the 160 year history of the game. We have 2 players currently who do so, McCormick and Meyers. On the same team, at the exact same time. There have been roughly 24,000 players that have appeared in a major league game. Some statistics wizard can maybe give the odds of us having 2 of them simultaneously.
I was talking position players, and obviously based on our discussion of Basallo that your chance of playing catcher in the majors throwing left are pretty miniscule. So "basically" you're playing 1B or OF as a position player. So if balls were hit exactly half the time to your right and half the time to your left, why would it be an advantage to throw left handed or right handed? Catcher might have to do with most batters being right-handed and you don't want a left-handed catcher trying to throw out runners.
