Posted by: Sam R. () on Wed Mar 21 18:43:06 2007

> If a player's dominant eye, the one he uses to focus, is his left eye, should he bat left handed?

The key is to have the dominant eye on the pitcher and their release point. This can be accomplished by having a batter turn their heads enough to have BOTH eyes on the release point verses just the frontside eye. My son is a switch hitter and as long as he keeps both eyes on the release point he is not hindered. The dominant eye will "do its dominant job" to track correctly so long as it is picking up the release point and NOT obscured by the nose because only the frontside eye is on the release.

In your son's case, if he only has frontside eye on pitcher (backside eye is obscured by his nose) and you know his dominant eye is his left eye- if he isn't comfortable turning his head so both eyes are on release point- then he should bat righty. This way his LEFT dominant eye is FRONTSIDE and tracking the ball.

If you want to bat him lefty he is going to have to turn his head in his stance so BOTH eyes are on the release point for best results.
From the left his dominant eye is on his backside.

Hope this helps.