How do people feel about how much of an advantage a switch hitter has over a righty?
1/8/2022 12:14 PM
I love switch hitters. I hate having a line-up full of RH hitters. I always try to incorporate some LH hitters, or preferably switch hitters.
1/8/2022 2:21 PM
Huge. The 65 across the board hitter with elite power (95+) is a good player as a right handed hitter, but if he's a switch hitter, he is a great player. This is 1990s baseball we're playing and back then switch hitting was huge.
1/8/2022 3:24 PM
The average difference between VsR and VsL among pitchers is 9.6 points.
An RHB will have that against him about 2/3 of the time, an LHB 1/3, and a switch hitter almost never.
My models would suggest that getting that advantage 2/3 more than an RHB would be worth about 0.3 RC/27, or about 6-8 runs per season. Relevant, but not huge.

EDIT: This is the correct answer to the question, "if a RHB and a switch both have the same VsR and VsL, what's the switch's advantage?" Obviously the average RHB has a greater VsL - VsR difference than the average switch, so there's an additional advantage to be gained for the switch there.
1/9/2022 12:59 AM (edited)

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