Throws right bats left

Top level thought is as Sluggerdad said, keep it fun at 7.  Otherwise, what I'll add to what has already been said...

What is his likely body type?  If he is going to be a big guy, power hitters are desirable from both sides.  If he is likely to be more of a speed guy, there will be much more desirability from the left side.  I'll never forget when I was with son when he was introduced to a club coach of a team he hoped to play for.  The coach had heard a lot of good things about son but didn't know any details.  Son is small and athletic (visibly obvious to this coach).  Coach asked son if he threw left or right - "left".  Coach's eyes lit up a bit.  Coach says assumingly "so you hit left?".  Son - "no, right".  Coach became outwardly and verbally discouraged.  Even to the point where it was rude.  Very uncomfortable.  But the message became more clear than we ever felt before.  Quick lefty hitters = quite desirable.    

Does he show eye dominance? I have a son who bats left throws right. I wish I had made him throw and bat from the same side. I my opinion it is usually best if the top hand is the dominant hand but there are plenty of guys who have done it the other way. Right handed throwers get to play more positions but left handed pitchers are much sought after. The bad thing about a player batting from the opposite side is the exposure of the throwing elbow to the opposing pitcher.

Good luck,

Ted

Yes, keep it up, especially if he shows that he is good at it. You never know what that could bring.

Usually the better reason is for a right handed hitter to switch hit.  If someone is a good hitter left handed the advatage of switch hitting isn't quite as important.

Reason for this is all switch hitters end up hitting left handed a far greater percentage of ABs.

So unless a hitter becomes equally good both ways. Switch hitting could make him a weaker hitter over all. Even if he is a good right handed hitter and OK left handed, switch hitting becomes a disadvantage because he will be hitting left handed most of the time.

I'm sure everyone knows this, but it is because there are a lot more RHPs than LHPs.

But the good thing is, at your sons age you can try most anything and see what happens.

If I had known that my kid would maintain interest in baseball and would actually come to love it with a passion and spend many of his waking hours trying to get better at it,  I would definitely have started him off hitting left handed.  I might even have had him playfully experiment with switch hitting at some earlier point in his baseball journey.       But when he started, he seemed so disinterested and so undedicated to it, that I just mostly let him be and didn't push or coach that much at all out of fear of making it not seem all that much fun. My only thought is that at 7 whatever you do, don't take the fun out of it.  

Hudslefty: Welcome to the site. At this point I say go with whatever way your son is enjoying the game. If he is able to bat both ways let him; could be fun for you to as an "ace" pitcher. I imagine it's probably good for dexterity, hand -eye-coordination at a young age. 

My 2018 is primarily left handed everything (right, draw, eat, etc).  But at a young age he changed to throwing and batting righty because he was always watching his older brother who was always dominant right.  2018 "retired" from baseball when kids not coaches could pitch (and got plunked one too many times). It's been a while, but I used to hear from 2015 about the number of infield hits he lost, because he never learned to bat lefty..

Top level thought is as Sluggerdad said, keep it fun at 7.  Otherwise, what I'll add to what has already been said...

What is his likely body type?  If he is going to be a big guy, power hitters are desirable from both sides.  If he is likely to be more of a speed guy, there will be much more desirability from the left side.  I'll never forget when I was with son when he was introduced to a club coach of a team he hoped to play for.  The coach had heard a lot of good things about son but didn't know any details.  Son is small and athletic (visibly obvious to this coach).  Coach asked son if he threw left or right - "left".  Coach's eyes lit up a bit.  Coach says assumingly "so you hit left?".  Son - "no, right".  Coach became outwardly and verbally discouraged.  Even to the point where it was rude.  Very uncomfortable.  But the message became more clear than we ever felt before.  Quick lefty hitters = quite desirable.    

Son used to play around with hitting from the left side with a "hit-a-way" hooked to the basketball goal when he was young.  Tried switch hitting when he was 11-12 in travel ball, but didn't dare do it moving to the big field at 13, nor when trying out for high school at 14.   He was 16 and when he successfully started switch hitting.  Wound up hitting a home run that year at the 17U WWBA from the left side.  I am pretty sure that helped him get recruited. 

Both my kids throw right and bat left. I was fast. Their mother was a track star. I figured there was a benefit hitting from the left side. My son got his first glove at age two. By five it was obvious he was a lefty. I never changed him. It ticked me off I couldn't play short after LL. He was a shortstop until a pro scout/travel coach suggested he be moved to center. My daughter was moved to center from short on her travel team and in 7th grade.