I took one of my Sons to the batting cages today and he has always tried to hit a couple from the left side. Someone told me a while back that "the only reason you need to hit from the other side is if you can't hit a curveball". I don't believe this is true any longer, but for the longest time I would only allow him to take the occasional pitch or 3 from the other side. This afternoon he wanted to take a couple from the other side and I didn't stop him and he hit a couple quite well. I decided to let him hit 2 tokens (40 pitches) from the left side for the first time encouraging him. He crushed the ball a number of times and actually seemed quicker, pulling everything he hit. He is not an exceptionally fast runner at all so I don't think he could ever be a threat bunting from the left side. What do you all think about switch hitting. Is there any true benefit? If he can switch hit will that compensate maybe for a weakness elsewhere like a slow 60 time?
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