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Friday, May 12, 2017

Pat Venditte Switch Pitcher



Switch pitcher Pat Venditte made his major league debut with the Oakland Athletics on June 5, 2015 pitching two scoreless innings.

Venditte of this writing has a 2-2 mark in the major leagues with an ERA of 4.97. He has pitched for the Oakland A’s, Toronto Blue Jays, and is currently pitching at AAA Leigh Valley in the Phillies organization.


He is the first ambidextrous since Tony Mullane, who pitched in the Dead Ball Era. Greg A. Harris pitched to batters left handed after enjoying a 15 year career right hand pitcher. 




Joe Glasgow is a former senior staff writer at Fanstop.com, and is the author of the book Play Ball! Growing Up With Baseball https://amzn.to/2o4M62h


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