Pat Venditte, Jr. is a middle reliever in his sophomore year at Creighton. He is a soft tosser, throwing between 80 and 85 mph who practically begged for a spot on the team. Currently he's got two ERAs - 2.36 as a righty and 2.92 as a lefty. Yes, that's right - Venditte is ambidextrous and has similar ability with both arms. Like a switch hitter he can switch arms at will throughout the game as long as he sticks to one arm for an entire opponents at bat.
He describes himself as having average skill and needing the edge that switching arms gives him. His coach says that his talent level shouldn't allow him to be as successful as he has been. None of this is deterring big league scouts who see him as a possible late pick in the next draft and understandably so. He has the potential to be able to pitch twice as many innings as the average pitcher so even in a mop-up roll he could be quite useful.
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