L or R?

Always a fun and interesting topic...  Wife and I are both LH.  First two kids RH.  Our third (now 20 y.o.) sounds a lot like your last two... throws left,kicks left, writes right, bats right, shoots a basketball right, just bizarre. 

As far as what to do, let's start with the important stuff...  more than one scout and RC have expressed disappointment when finding out that our LH thrower hit RH.  OK, not that important but true.  I think the RH hit thing stemmed from some of his first toys.  He got a plastic golf driver when he was two or three and it was righty.  He used to swing that thing for hours.  Boy did I screw up.  Never should have let him use that

 

We never had school issues other than a little sloppy on the handwriting so I couldn't advise with any intelligence regarding your primary question.  This has come up here before, though, and I remember a suggestion to also factor in eye-dominance.

 2019Son currently has two teammates who throw L but hit R.

 

Their coach said: "You know what that's called? . . . Bad parenting!" 

My oldest son throws and bats lefthanded but writes righthanded while my younger son throws and bats righthanded but writes lefthanded.

Oldest RH. Youngest throws and writes RH but anything to do we swinging (bat, golf club, hockey stick) is LH. Don't know why it's just the way he is. 

Mine throws right, writes and eats left, kicks a ball with his leftfoot, and shoots left handed as he is left eye dominant.  He predominately bats right handed because he has more power on that side, but we have been working on switch hitting for a few years now.  He has a pretty left handed swing, but because he has more power right handed I just can't get him to bat lefty in a game.  He is just a Freshman, and the Varsity coach told me that they plan on developing him as a true switch hitter as his high school career progresses.

 

I really wish I had made him bat lefty more when he was just starting out.  I have no problem with him throwing righty as he is a catcher.

lThe R/L thing is an issue we screwed up on the youngest (my son). I'm naturally and athletically left handed. However I do every day things right handed. My mother taped up my fingers on my left hand so I wouldn't appear to be left handed in school. In the 60s lefties were thought to be slow. The problem was they lived in a right handed world. One of my brother-in-laws (of three) is left handed. He is slow. My (ex) wife is right handed.

 

When my daughter (a righty) started playing softball at age seven I taught her to throw right and bat left. My (then) two year old son tagged along to practices and games. I got him a whiffle tee ball set. He started on the left side. It's what he saw his sister do. As far as throwing we had no clue. At age three he was absolutely ambidextrous in terms of picking up objects. I placed balls directly in front of him and had him throw to me. One time left. One time right. The frustrated former lefty LL shortstop (me) taught him to throw right handed at age three. 

 

He was a shortstop through high school varsity soph year of high school. Junior year he was moved to center. A pro scout saw his travel practice and suggested the move. As a second position he pitched through high school. Now it's too bad he doesn't throw lefty. But what pro team would be interested in a 6'2" lefty throwing 90+? <--- sarcasm (hitting myself in the head)

Talked to oldest sons coach at practice today. He said he would have him bat L but throw R. His reasoning was it opens up more positions to him. Kind of torn as it would be fun, but stressful, down road to have a L pitcher. Oldest brother is only P when innings eater needed. Loved reply about bad parenting re: middle son. We always get strange looks when  someone sees him make good play as L in the field and then come up to bat as R.

This posting made me wonder what ever happened to the Creighton pitcher that the Yankees drafted who could pitch both righty and lefty - Pat Venditte? Well I saw he earned his first cactus league win Friday pitching 2 innings in relief. Now he's with the A's. There is "Moneyball" with Billy Beane at its finest. Pay one salary to "two arms."

He's fighting for an MLB slot with oakland.

 

LHP. While positions in traditional baseball limit lefties, at least with my S, he was the left handed shortstop in Pinto and Mustang, the left handed catcher in early travel ball, the occasional left handed shortstop in a very very mediocre HS program, before self-selecting to PO.

 

Too bad you can't know this answer: will he throw or hit better? If the former make him a lefty thrower; if the latter make him a lefty hitter, righty thrower.

One of Tim Kurkjian's books a few years ago talked at length about how many MLB players had one degree or another of ambidextrousness or crossed wiring.

He doing well. At least PR wise and yesterday game
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/...-arm-in-spring-debut

Two of my 3 boys, oldest and youngest, throw and hit lefty, write and eat righty.  Oldest shoots a gun and bow righty, youngest shoots gun righty but bow lefty.  Oldest plays tennis righty.  Funny how that stuff works out.  Neither my wife or I are lefty, but wifes mother is.  Anyhow, definitely not complaining since both lefty's pitch, and the middle one(righty) got the size....the Baseball gods must have been shining down!

 

To the Op, I wouldn't sweat it to much, he'll find his way, just support which ever way it is.

Vanderbilt currently has an ambidextrous pitcher.  

 

FWIW- I wish I never took the fork out of my toddlers left hand (I didn't go so far as taping his fingers, tho).  However, he did learn how to successfully switch hit as a young teen.

 

 

 

Less wear and tear on "just one" arm!

 

Here is a Youtube video of Venditte facing a switch hitter.   Pretty funny to see and the commentators are hilarious.  I believe NCAA and MLB rules were named after him.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDyCRTlKllk

 

My 2017 bats left and throws right. Since t-ball. My dad and both brothers are left-handed. I learned in 2012 on the way to a LL All-Stars game that he is left-eye dominant. So he shoots a rifle left-handed but pistol RH but with his left eye. Any sport that uses two hands he doeas left-handed.Oh, he also skateboards, and he was an instructor, like a lefty. Cross-wiring indeed.