Talk:Pat Venditte

Playing career is apparently over
Pat has ended his playing career according to an Oct. 8, 2021 article in the Omaha World-Herald, Ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte to be inducted into Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame. The article says he has "stepped away" and hasn't trained since May 2021. In his Creighton Hall of Fame acceptance speech (timestamp 706) he starts by saying he is now selling A-V equipment, although he doesn't mention retiring from playing. Danaxtell (talk) 15:54, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Umpire ruling - who picks first
I am removing the uncited section which claims that the MLB informally decided that the umpires ruled incorrectly on the switch hitter/switch pitcher matter. I can't find any reference which supports that. In fact, I found a reference with says exactly the opposite The next day, the at-bat prompted the league to re-establish a rule that forces a batter to select a side of the plate to hit from.  The article is otherwise very good about citing sources, and I think we should try to keep it that way (although it needs some cleaning up - with a unified citation scheme). --Alienmercy (talk) 17:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Stats
I've been updating the stats box after every game when he plays, I assume this is ok? Cryomaniac (talk) 14:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't have a problem with it. It seems to be a fairly common practice for the pages of major leaguers. A citation/link to his official stats page might be nice. Maybe we could put an info box in the upper right corner of the page with his photo (if a free one can be found) and everything. Does anyone out there attend SI Yanks games that could maybe snap a few photos of him pitching - like maybe once from each side? --Alienmercy (talk) 17:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I think there is already a link to his stats page. I'll take a look at the Yankees players for infobox colours etc. Cryomaniac (talk) 11:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I just added the MLB infobox, if someone wants to edit the infobox to make it applicable to minor league players, please could you do it, since I don't know how. Cryomaniac (talk) 11:33, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Venditte's batting hand
(disregarding the part where he's a 35 year old AAAA reliever and this'll likely never be relevant in a practical sense....)

ESPN.com, MLB.com, baseball-reference, and the Miami Marlins' official website (which I guess just counts as part of MLB.com, but still) all list him as "bats left." It was changed on this article to "bats switch" without an edit summary a couple months ago. I just changed it back. Curiously Retrosheet does list him this way, and The Baseball Cube lists him as "bats right." So who's authoritative here? I'm inclined to say MLB.com, but who knows. Did he ever bat in college? Anonymous Contributor 012786 (talk) 09:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

He actually batted in the Majors once (and worked a full count!) but it was left-handed against a right-handed pitcher (A.J. Schugel) so it's hard to say for sure on the basis of that. Anonymous Contributor 012786 (talk) 07:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Pat Venditte
i just wanted to say whoever wrote original info is wrong about him being only player that is a switch pitcher in MLB Greg Harris who was best known as a Texas Ranger also pitched with both left and right arms. Don't represent Wikipedia with false information - wikipedia is today's version of an encyclopedia and an encyclopedia is supposed to present info as facts - not opinions or theories 2600:6C54:4E00:115D:9290:E138:495C:1451 (talk) 17:28, 9 November 2023 (UTC)