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Pat has ended his playing career according to an Oct. 8, 2021 article in the Omaha World-Herald, Ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte to be inducted into Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame. The article says he has "stepped away" and hasn't trained since May 2021. In his Creighton Hall of Fame acceptance speech (timestamp 706) he starts by saying he is now selling A-V equipment, although he doesn't mention retiring from playing. Danaxtell ( talk) 15:54, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
I am removing the uncited section which claims that the MLB informally decided that the umpires ruled incorrectly on the switch hitter/switch pitcher matter. I can't find any reference which supports that. In fact, I found a reference with says exactly the opposite
The next day, the at-bat prompted the league to re-establish a rule that forces a batter to select a side of the plate to hit from. [1]
The article is otherwise very good about citing sources, and I think we should try to keep it that way (although it needs some cleaning up - with a unified citation scheme). -- Alienmercy ( talk) 17:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I've been updating the stats box after every game when he plays, I assume this is ok? Cryomaniac ( talk) 14:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Something needs to be done about them, because I think it looks a mess at the moment. If someone can suggest or do something about it it would help. What I did before that's now been reverted was how I've seen it done elsewhere, it wasn't intentional. Cryomaniac ( talk) 12:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
As the editor who added the first (and almost all) of the citations to this article, I really don't appreciate the style being changed without finishing the discussion. Note that in the Wikipedia style guidelines ( WP:CITE#HOW) it says
Where there is disagreement, the style used by the first editor to use one should be respected.
I think that I was being very reasonable in requesting that, if the style is changed, we continue to use a system that does not require references to be inlined. I'm fine with the numbered "footnote" style, but can we please go back to keeping the references all organized in one place? Alienmercy ( talk) 16:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
(disregarding the part where he's a 35 year old AAAA reliever and this'll likely never be relevant in a practical sense....)
ESPN.com, MLB.com, baseball-reference, and the Miami Marlins' official website (which I guess just counts as part of MLB.com, but still) all list him as "bats left." It was changed on this article to "bats switch" without an edit summary a couple months ago. I just changed it back. Curiously Retrosheet does list him this way, and The Baseball Cube lists him as "bats right." So who's authoritative here? I'm inclined to say MLB.com, but who knows. Did he ever bat in college? Anonymous Contributor 012786 ( talk) 09:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
He actually batted in the Majors once (and worked a full count!) but it was left-handed against a right-handed pitcher ( A.J. Schugel) so it's hard to say for sure on the basis of that. Anonymous Contributor 012786 ( talk) 07:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
i just wanted to say whoever wrote original info is wrong about him being only player that is a switch pitcher in MLB Greg Harris who was best known as a Texas Ranger also pitched with both left and right arms. Don't represent Wikipedia with false information - wikipedia is today's version of an encyclopedia and an encyclopedia is supposed to present info as facts -
not opinions or theories 2600:6C54:4E00:115D:9290:E138:495C:1451 ( talk) 17:28, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
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Pat has ended his playing career according to an Oct. 8, 2021 article in the Omaha World-Herald, Ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte to be inducted into Creighton Athletics Hall of Fame. The article says he has "stepped away" and hasn't trained since May 2021. In his Creighton Hall of Fame acceptance speech (timestamp 706) he starts by saying he is now selling A-V equipment, although he doesn't mention retiring from playing. Danaxtell ( talk) 15:54, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
I am removing the uncited section which claims that the MLB informally decided that the umpires ruled incorrectly on the switch hitter/switch pitcher matter. I can't find any reference which supports that. In fact, I found a reference with says exactly the opposite
The next day, the at-bat prompted the league to re-establish a rule that forces a batter to select a side of the plate to hit from. [1]
The article is otherwise very good about citing sources, and I think we should try to keep it that way (although it needs some cleaning up - with a unified citation scheme). -- Alienmercy ( talk) 17:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
I've been updating the stats box after every game when he plays, I assume this is ok? Cryomaniac ( talk) 14:52, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Something needs to be done about them, because I think it looks a mess at the moment. If someone can suggest or do something about it it would help. What I did before that's now been reverted was how I've seen it done elsewhere, it wasn't intentional. Cryomaniac ( talk) 12:36, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
As the editor who added the first (and almost all) of the citations to this article, I really don't appreciate the style being changed without finishing the discussion. Note that in the Wikipedia style guidelines ( WP:CITE#HOW) it says
Where there is disagreement, the style used by the first editor to use one should be respected.
I think that I was being very reasonable in requesting that, if the style is changed, we continue to use a system that does not require references to be inlined. I'm fine with the numbered "footnote" style, but can we please go back to keeping the references all organized in one place? Alienmercy ( talk) 16:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
(disregarding the part where he's a 35 year old AAAA reliever and this'll likely never be relevant in a practical sense....)
ESPN.com, MLB.com, baseball-reference, and the Miami Marlins' official website (which I guess just counts as part of MLB.com, but still) all list him as "bats left." It was changed on this article to "bats switch" without an edit summary a couple months ago. I just changed it back. Curiously Retrosheet does list him this way, and The Baseball Cube lists him as "bats right." So who's authoritative here? I'm inclined to say MLB.com, but who knows. Did he ever bat in college? Anonymous Contributor 012786 ( talk) 09:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
He actually batted in the Majors once (and worked a full count!) but it was left-handed against a right-handed pitcher ( A.J. Schugel) so it's hard to say for sure on the basis of that. Anonymous Contributor 012786 ( talk) 07:55, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
i just wanted to say whoever wrote original info is wrong about him being only player that is a switch pitcher in MLB Greg Harris who was best known as a Texas Ranger also pitched with both left and right arms. Don't represent Wikipedia with false information - wikipedia is today's version of an encyclopedia and an encyclopedia is supposed to present info as facts -
not opinions or theories 2600:6C54:4E00:115D:9290:E138:495C:1451 ( talk) 17:28, 9 November 2023 (UTC)