I grew up playing baseball (and softball) throwing righty and batting lefty.
To complicate things further, I write lefty.
When you bat lefty, your strength hand is your bottom hand on the bat...which is your right hand. Your left hand is more your guide hand.
For me, my right side has always been my strongest, but my left side seems to have better..."finesse"...I guess is the best word I can think of.
I could switch around and bat righty if I wanted, but was limited to just slapping at the ball pretty weakly. I wasn't exactly a power hitter as it was.
One thing nobody ever mentions with lefty's, and it was a fatal flaw of mine since I was never quite as good as I hoped I was at bat control...yes, you come out of the box quicker, but I also had a habit of pulling the ball badly and rolling it over to the 2nd baseman and 1st baseman a lot, which ultimately made it a lot harder to run out more infield hits, regardless of the head start you got.
During my racquetball playing days, I could use both hands for backhand or forehand, but again my right was my power swing. My left was reserved more for changing it up once in awhile and confusing the angles on my opponents, or giving my right arm a break when my tendonitis was acting up.
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