Unless the CEO has been completely misinformed about this whole genetics thing, the odds of the Jr. VP ever playing major league baseball are pretty damn slim. If he is ever going to get a shot in the MLB he needs a gimmick. I plan on teaching him a knuckle ball as soon as he’s old enough to throw, and hopefully turning the lad into the next Wakefield. Lately though I’ve happily noticed that the boy appears to be ambidextrous. Awesome — perhaps he can follow in this guy’s footsteps:

The pitch was nothing remarkable: Pat Venditte, Creighton University’s temporarily right-handed pitcher, threw a fastball past a Northern Iowa batter for a called strike three. It was his next windup that evinced this young pitcher’s uniqueness and, perhaps, professional future. As his teammates whipped the ball around the infield, Venditte smoothly, unthinkingly, removed his custom glove from his left hand and slipped it on his right. Moments later he leaned back, threw a strike left-handed to the next batter, and finished the side in order. Venditte is believed to be the only ambidextrous pitcher in NCAA Division I college baseball, the ultimate relief specialist. . .

“I don’t think twice about it,” said Venditte, whose father, Pat Sr., taught him to throw with both arms when he was 3. “You grew up with it, you love it, you want to keep playing as long as you can.” Venditte has improved so much in the past year that major league scouts are starting to consider him a possible late-round pick in this June’s amateur draft because of his versatility. “He could be an economical two-for-one,” Jerry Lafferty, a longtime scout for the Philadelphia Phillies, said last Friday while assessing the 21-year-old Venditte from behind the backstop.

This summer we’ll start working on throwing a whiffle ball. If an ambidextrous knuckleballer can’t find work in professional baseball then something in the world just isn’t right.