Shawn Estes (split from stupid game)

[nymr83]

]yeah, i was confused by UMDB which has the following incorrect data: Quote: Aaron Shawn Estes Born: February 18, 1973 at San Francisco, Cal. Throws: Right Bats: Left Height: 6.02 Weight: 195 i saw "right left" and since i knew he threw lefty i assumed he batted righty without looking too closely to see that they had both wrong (i assumed they were just reversed) baseball reference lists him as a switch hitter but then when i click "splits" it shows 582 plate appearences as a righty (440 vs. righties and 142 vs. lefties) which is his correct total. so i'm not sure what to think.

so which is it? can anyone confirm a shawn estes left-handed at-bat?

[Guest Edgy DC]

My guess is that when he was young and his arm was precious, his team forced him to bat lefthanded to protect his arm, as some organizations do. As he grew into a mediocrity, team's were less strict.

He yanked a homer down the line against Roger Clemens, and if there was anybody you were going to bat lefthanded against, it was him.

So I withdraw my comment. Sources may have him switchie, but not my observations.

[nymr83]

i've already written to baseball reference for clarification

[metirish]

I thought about the Clemens home run and in my minds eye Estes is hitting from the right side, he yanked it down the third base side IIRC.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Oops. I fixed the UMDB error.

Here's a list of the 32 Mets players who batted right handed but threw left handed:

+------------------------------+
| Mark Carreon                 |
| Carlos Diaz                  |
| Shawn Estes                  |
| Don Florence                 |
| Rob Gardner                  |
| Paul Gibson                  |
| Ed Glynn                     |
| Joe Grzenda                  |
| Eric Gunderson               |
| Mark Guthrie                 |
| Mike Hampton                 |
| Rickey Henderson             |
| Bob Hendley                  |
| Willard Hunter               |
| Randy Jones                  |
| Cleon Jones                  |
| Bobby Jones                  |
| Jeff Kaiser                  |
| Kevin Kobel                  |
| Jerry Koosman                |
| Ron Locke                    |
| Ken MacKenzie                |
| Tug McGraw                   |
| Bob Miller                   |
| Vinegar Bend Mizell          |
| Bob Myrick                   |
| Randy Niemann                |
| Darren Oliver                |
| Jesse Orosco                 |
| Gordie Richardson            |
| Dick Rusteck                 |
| Brent Strom                  |
+------------------------------+