How rare are lefties in your area?

Half my son's high school and travel team hit left. But only a couple in high school threw left. Only one pitched. Upper level travel teams look for specific talent. His travel team had three lefty pitchers. 

I don't recollect there being more than a handful of lefty pitchers from LL through 14u travel. In 16u and 18u there were more for reasons previously mentioned.

My son's V team has a roster of 18. Of those, we have two true left-handed players. One is our established LHP (senior, plays some time in OF and will be missed when he graduates) and the other is the backup 1B. He gets virtually zero playing time. We also have two RH players who hit LH, my son being one. My son was not "converted"; he batted LH since t-ball on his own. The other LH hitting righty is a senior who gets very little playing time or ABs.

So, that makes 2 lefties of 18 or 1 in 9, which is I believe the national average. And 4 in 18 batting. No switch hitters.

In general, I expect that the higher up in baseball you go, the more true lefties you will see becuase they self-select to keep playing, and lefty hitting RH players probably shoots up to maybe even close to half in some programs.

We have one RH player who hits left on varsity. I'm not sure how he got there.

When my son was in t-ball, he hit only right handed. He wanted to be like everyone else.

On the pitching side: Since my son is out at least two more weeks, our top 3 pitchers in the playoffs are all LH.

On the batting side: We batted 9 on Saturday.6 were LH.

Top four OF are all LH.

I know, we are an aberration!

ps: The top two pitchers of our opponent this past weekend were both LH.

For the team's on my son's high school schedule, I'd say most have 1 lefty starter. About half of the first basemen are L/L. Probably average one L/L outfielder per team, plus a handful of L/R outfielders. Maybe a third of the starting catchers bat left.

My boy throws right hits left. Always has, since he first picked up a stick and hit a rock with it at two.

Over the years we've found that is more common than I thought when he was little. What's a bit less common is left throwers that hit righty.

We had 21 players on the V roster this season. The only LH bat was a RH F4 So who came up for 2 weeks early in the season. Other than that, I don't know if we have anyone else in the entire program who's LL or LR.

Sounds like normal statistical ups and downs.  My son's team currently has 3 LHP's, all seniors, all really effective, at the top of the rotation.  Next year looks like we'll have 0 LHP's. 

My favorite thing about having lots of lefty pitchers around -- kills the running game.  Our #1 starter averages 2 pickoffs (and only 4-5 baserunners) per 7 inning game.

Yes, my son the catcher loves it when our LHP is on the mound. Steal attempts become even more rare and even if they go it is with a smaller lead.

2017 son's varsity has 3 lefties, all bat left.  #2 and #3 pitchers and the other one gets occasional innings in non-conference outings and some outfield. 

2019 son is the only lefty on his school summer team and he bats right (probably from trying to keep up with big brother at a young age).  

We have my son, Ryan who throws left and hits right.  We also have 4 lefty hitters that throw right.

My son, the baserunner, would much prefer RHP, than LHP because of the "move" and smaller lead. Fortunately he beat the throw from 1st to second on both times he ran on a pickoff. He usually has to study the LHP delivery for several pitches.

Son's team has 1 LHP (#3 starter), 1 LHP reliever, left handed LF. One additional RH thrower bats lefty. Team has 21 rostered.

During my years operating the Area Code games, I placed 50 per cent of the pitchers

left handed. The 300 scouts wanted to see Lhp. 

Bob