Tommy Edman switch-hitting vs. Blue Jays in the World Series

nn”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”So if Edman batted lefty as usual, he knew he’d be fed a steady diet of those splitters, and a splitter is a pitch you want to see coming toward your barrel, not tumbling away from it. Batting righty would give him a better chance to handle a righty splitter.nnIn fact, everything Yesavage throws moves toward a right-handed hitter — his fastball, his splitter and even his slider, which is a strange pitch that breaks the “wrong” way, toward Yesavage’s arm side. With Edman batting right-handed, then, everything he saw from Yesavage would move into the path of his bat.nnAnd from his point of view in the batter’s box, standing in against Yesavage isn’t much like standing in against your normal right-handed pitcher.nnYesavage’s 65-degree arm angle is the highest of any pitcher this postseason (higher means a more over-the-top delivery), and so is his average release point of 7.12 feet off the ground. What advantage would a switch-hitter gain by batting lefty against a pitcher like that, when Yesavage doesn’t visually resemble all the other Major League right-handers Edman is used to seeing from the left side of the plate?”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Image”,”caption”:null,”contextualCaption”:null,”contextualAspectRatio”:”raw”,”credit”:null,”contentType”:null,”format”:”jpg”,”templateUrl”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/optxycmoxthwdis48tt1″,”type”:”image”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Edman wasn’t quite sure if Yesavage’s delivery would be easier to see from the right-handed batter’s box than the left — “I haven’t hit lefty against him, so it’s hard for me to answer,” he said — but he asserted that Yesavage’s unique arm slot influenced him to bat righty.nn”I think a big part of it is because of his arm angle, his unique arm angle,” Edman said after facing Yesavage for the first time in Game 1. “It made more sense to hit right-handed.”nnThe results were mixed. Edman notched one hit off Yesavage, an infield single, but that was all, and he also struck out once in each game. But the process, despite being counterintuitive, was sound.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”**2) Why Edman** ***doesn’t*** **hit righty against Gausman**nnThat brings us to Gausman, Yesavage’s partner in splitter crime. Gausman has the exact same three-pitch arsenal as Yesavage. He has the same No. 1 pitch, his own devastating splitter.nnSo why, in Game 2, the very next day after facing Yesavage, did Edman turn around and bat left-handed against Gausman? It would seem like those previous right-handed at-bats against Yesavage might pay dividends against a pitcher with a similar profile. The more Edman saw Yesavage’s splitter, the better he’d be ready for Gausman’s … right?nnWell, not really. Yesavage and Gausman are more different than you might think.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”OEmbed”,”html”:”

Kevin Gausman vs. Trey Yesavage, Splitters. pic.twitter.com/nf4A6d25Z5

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 22, 2025

nnn”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Gasuman’s splitter *is* also devastating against left-handed hitters. His numbers this postseason are almost as ridiculous as Yesavage’s: 54% splitter usage against lefties with an .074 batting average allowed, 49% swing-and-miss rate and 29% strikeout rate.nnBut it goes back to the arm angle.nn*Seeing* Gausman’s splitter is not the same as seeing Yesavage’s splitter.nn”I think it’s mainly the angle that’s the biggest difference,” Edman said between facing Yesavage in Game 5 and seeing Gausman in Game 6. “Yesavage’s is more just like straight downhill, both the splitter and the slider. And then Gausman is more just kind of a traditional arm slot. The splitter is very deceptive as well. So I think just the arm slot from Yesavage is the big reason I hit righty.””,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Image”,”caption”:null,”contextualCaption”:null,”contextualAspectRatio”:”raw”,”credit”:null,”contentType”:null,”format”:”jpg”,”templateUrl”:”https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/{formatInstructions}/mlb/u7ppjj6nqmemmtxsr74f”,”type”:”image”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Gausman’s arm angle this postseason is almost twice as low as Yesavage’s, a much more traditional three-quarters right-handed delivery. Standing in against him *is* like standing in against the other right-handers Edman is used to facing (albeit with a much better splitter), so it makes sense to bat from his typical left-handed side.nnAnd that lower arm slot from Gausman could make his pitches harder to pick up for Edman if he tried batting righty, since the ball would be coming from the third-base side of the rubber, behind Edman’s back.nnGausman has great pitches, but he doesn’t have the funky look of Yesavage and the funky movement that comes with it. And Edman has faced Gausman plenty of times before in his career, so he wasn’t sparked to try something out of the ordinary like he was against a rookie he’d never seen before.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”OEmbed”,”html”:”

Kevin Gausman, 95mph ⛽️ pic.twitter.com/YNdnjanlS1

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) October 26, 2025

nnn”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”Like with Yesavage, Edman didn’t have great results against Gausman in their first World Series matchup — he went 0-for-2 with a strikeout batting lefty against him in Game 2. But maybe Game 6 will be different.nnAnd the very fact that a switch-hitter is batting from different sides of the plate in the World Series against two pitchers with the exact same arsenals is a testament to how hard hitting is today, how nasty pitchers are and how the fight for every last edge can turn traditional baseball strategy on its head.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”*MLB.com’s Sonja Chen contributed reporting to this story.*”,”type”:”text”}],”relativeSiteUrl”:”/news/tommy-edman-switch-hitting-vs-blue-jays-in-world-series”,”contentType”:”news”,”subHeadline”:null,”summary”:”The switch-hitter’s whole reason to exist is to neutralize the pitcher’s platoon advantage.nLefty pitcher … a switch-hitter bats righty. Righty pitcher … he bats lefty. It’s one of the most fundamental strategies of baseball. 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