"...most batters are right handed..."

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Originally Posted by filihok

I was thinking that I had heard about 10% of people are left-handed, which wikipedia confirms, though other googles get answers from 2 - 30%. But if the more common 10% is correct then left-handedness is highly represented in the MLB.

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But the thing is that there are plenty of baseball players who are right-handed in everything else they do, but bat lefty. There may be more "natural" lefties in baseball than in the general population, because of a success bias towards left-handers, but there's really no way to measure that. The only thing that's recorded is what side of the plate someone stands on, not in which hand they hold their fork.

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there are more right-handed people walking around

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...isn't as important as it may seem.

One case I can think of is Ichiro. His father made him become a left handed hitter as a kid because he said if you hit from this side you're already closer to first base. He still does throw right handed though.

Good points