TORONTO — Canada produces more Major League Baseball players who bat left compared to any other country, a new study from Canadian researchers indicates. Only about 37 per cent of Americans in the big leagues bat left, while 33 per cent of Asian-born players and 30 per cent of Dominican Republic-born players are left batters. If including all baseball players in 2016, only about 25 per cent bat left, the study found. For example, hockey players who shoot left have their right hand at the end of the stick. There they found a higher proportion of baseball players who hit left in the hockey-playing states, although the differences weren’t statistically significant.

Source: National Post May 04, 2018 18:45 UTC