Ashmore做的Pat Venditte专辑，大部分内容应该很多人看过，今天没比赛索性翻一下。 不过我不是逐字逐句翻还请见谅。 最後一段语意不是很了，翻错请帮忙推文指正。 Future Thunder: Pat Venditte (As promised, here’s the feature on Venditte. I think you’ll see this in the paper at some point, just not this version of it. I’ll need to re-arrange some stuff, and make some improvements, etc. This is basically the quick “don’t let people down and get something posted” version of it.”) ...啊.....是未来Thunder(2A) Pat Venditte 前言略. Trenton Thunder reliever Eric Wordekemper will never forget the first time he played catch with Staten Island Yankees reliever Pat Venditte. Teammates in college at Creighton; Wordekemper a junior and Venditte a freshman, the two were paired up to throw to each other early in the season. 现在2A Thunder的後援投手Eric Wordekemper永远忘不了他第一次碰到1A Yankees 後援投手Pat Venditte的情形. 他们是Creighton大学时代的队友;Wordekemper是大三,Venditte是大一,球季初他们两 个人成为彼此接传球的搭档. “We had a bunch of new kids on campus, so I wasn’t familiar with who I was playing catch with. The first day we were having pitcher-catcher workouts, I was playing catch with this kid,” recalled Wordekemper. “We get to about 60 feet, and we were just having a nice catch. Then we get to 90 feet, and I notice he’s throwing with a different arm. Now at the time, I didn’t know it was Pat playing catch with me. So we got back in, and I’m like, ‘You throw with both of your arms?’ and he goes, ‘Yeah, I’ m Pat Venditte,’ and I go, ‘Oh, so this is the kid we have.’” “那时候校园进来很多新生,我不太认得和我接传球过的人.直到第一次进行投捕练习那天, 我和这小子一起接传球.”Wordekemper回忆着. “我们拉长球拉到60尺,中间感觉非常好.後来拉到90尺的时候我发现到对面那个人是用另 一只手在丢.当下我不知道跟我丢的这个人还是Pat.所以我们又走回来,然後我说一些类 似像‘你是双刀流喔?’,然後他说‘对啊,我叫Pat Venditte’,接着我‘哇,这是我们的 新生耶.’” Whether it’s fans, teammates or opposing hitters, reactions range from amazement to befuddlement at the ambidextrous Nebraska native’s unique gift. And Venditte’s been getting it ever since he started switch-pitching at the age of three. 不论是球迷,队友,或是对方打者,见到这个来自Nebraska可以双面开弓天赋异禀的投手时, 他们的反应从惊为天人到大感疑惑的都有. Venditte这项技能是从三岁的时候开始练习的. “I’m a natural right-hander,” Venditte confessed. “My dad worked with me in developing my left side, and it progressed over the years. By the time I got into my high school career and my college career, it was pretty much equal.” “我是天生右撇子,”Venditte坦述. “我爸和我一起开发出左手投球的潜能,而我一年一年渐渐地进步.我在高中和大学投球的 时候,左右两边感觉已经差不多了.” Much of that development took place in Venditte’s backyard. Of course, this wasn’t just any ordinary chunk of dirt and grass. In fact, it wasn’t grass at all. Venditte’s backyard was constructed of Astroturf. In that backyard, his dad had built him a batting cage, a pitching machine and a bullpen mound with lights that was fully equipped with a radar gun. 左手投球的潜力大部分是Venditte在自家後院开发出来的.当然,这不是普通的後院,这是 少林寺後院.(天气太热耍冷一下) Venditte的老爸在他家後院搞了一个打击笼,一台发球机,一个牛棚高度投手丘,并且用全套 测速设备当装饰,灯光美气氛佳. “It helped me prepare for my future,” Venditte said. “It didn’t really show at first, but I stuck with it, and my dad and my other coaches helped me, and it’s really starting to pay off.” “孩子的未来不能等,这些装备让我投好壮壮,”Venditte说. “一开始训练不出成效,但是我继续坚持,老爸和教练一起帮助我之後,这套设备开始显出 价值.” The payoff is finally starting to unfold at the professional level, as he was drafted for the second consecutive year by the New York Yankees. Selected in the 20th round this year, Venditte quickly signed and was assigned to New York’s short-season Single-A affiliate in Staten Island. 努力有了回报,Venditte开始显露出职业的水准,所以洋基赏识他这样的天份连续两年都在 选秀上选他. 今年他在第20轮被选上.Venditte很快地和洋基签约然後被指派到短期1A Staten Island. “I wasn’t sure I was going to go that high,” he said. “In my junior year, I went in the 45th (round), so it was a pleasant surprise to get that call at 20.” “我不确定我会被选到这麽高顺位,”他说. “在大三那年,我是第45轮选上的,所以今年第20轮被选上我又惊又喜.” Venditte, who called the four years he spent at Creighton the best experience of his life, was a switch-pitcher from the second he stepped on campus. The walk-on, whose goal was to simply pitch in college, just couldn’t necessarily do it mid-inning when he first started. Venditte说,在Creighton的四年里,最棒的经历是第二年开始他可以用双刀流来投球.作为 一个没有奖学金的‘walk-on’,教练只要他在球队负责投球吃局数就好,所以一开始的时候 不让他在投球中换手. “His freshman year, we didn’t allow him to switch in the middle of an inning,” Wordekemper said. “But the next two or three years, I understand they were switching him in the middle of innings. He developed very well from his freshman year to his senior year and I think he’ll be very successful in minor league ball.” “他大一的时候,我们不允许他在一局里面变换投球的手,”Wordekemper说. “但是接下来两三年,我知道他们(教练)开始同意让他在投球局中换手.从大一升上大二之 後他的表现越来越好,而我认为他会在小联盟投的很成功.” He throws a low 90’s fastball and a hard, biting curveball using an over the top delivery from the right side, and throws a mid 80’s fastball and a slider from his left. 他右手投球是从上肩投球,速球low 90s,还有一颗好折的卡夫球.左手投球是侧肩,速球 mid 80s搭配一颗滑球. Perhaps more amazing is that he does it all with just one glove, a large, custom-made piece of equipment that features six finger holes and two webbed sides. Clearly, you can’t find something like that on the shelf of your local sporting goods store. 或许最让人诧异的是他用两手投球却只用一支手套,那是一咖六指双边用的客制化手套. 显然你不容易在一般的体育用品店架上找到像这咖一样的手套. “My first one was made by Mizuno, but when I got to Creighton, they have a contract with Louisville,” Venditte said. “After my sophomore year, I started using the Louisville one. They have a five finger version of it too, and I’ve been trying that out as well.” “我第一支手套是美津浓做的,但是我进入Creighton後,他们和Louisville有签约,” Venditte说. “大二以後,我开始用Louisville,他们有一种五指手套的版型也可以两边用,我也开始 试用看看这咖手套.” Staten Island Yankees pitching coach Pat Daneker, who briefly pitched in the big leagues with the Chicago White Sox, has never seen a switch-pitcher before, no less a six-fingered glove. “It’s definitely the first time I’ve ever seen that,” Daneker said. “He’s definitely an interesting guy to watch pitch. You’d think when you watch a guy throw like that, that he throws real good with one arm and not so good with the other. But it looks pretty good from both sides, I was really surprised.” Staten Island Yankees的投手教练Pat Daneker过去短暂上过大联盟为CWS投球,他从来 没有见过双刀流的投手,更不要说六指手套. “这绝对是我第一次看见这样的事情,”Daneker说. “看他投球他绝对是个有趣的家伙.你可能想过像他这样投球的投手,可能一边很好另一 边不好.但是他看起来左右兼修,我非常惊讶啊.” Considering the events of Thursday night during his professional debut in Brooklyn, it’s this statement that may stand out above all the rest… “You might see something kind of crazy tonight if there’s a switch hitter that comes up,” Venditte said. “We’ll have to play it out and see how it works.” 想到星期四晚上他在Brooklyn职业初登板发生的事件,这个发言也许可以说明接下来会 发生的... “如果对方上来是个左右开弓打者的话,今晚你可能会看到一些很crazy的事情,” Venditte说. “我们必须继续比赛然後看看如何解决这个问题.” As for Wordekemper, he and Venditte still stay in touch on a regular basis. “I texted with him the other night, he sent me some words of encouragement,” Venditte said. “He said just to try to outwork everybody else, that’s the only way to do it. That’s how he did, and it’s working for him.” 谈到Wordekemper,Venditte和他仍然保持联络. “前几天晚上我和他聊了一下(用e-mail或msn之类的),他给了我一些鼓励的话,” Venditte说. “他说只要想着尽力去做比别人更多更好,那是我们唯一要做的事情.他也是这麽做的, 而这对他有效.” Thunder ETA: 2011. Venditte’s stuff is good, but nobody’s going to have any clue what to do with him and it’s likely he moves at a slow pace through the system. While his curve from the right side has a lot of break, but he’ s either going to have to stick to one side — something he told me he would do if the organization felt that was best — or develop more pitches. If guys know there’s a 50-50 shot at what’s coming, the odds can only be in his favor for so long before someone sits on one and deposits it into orbit. Thunder ETA(估计升上Thunder的时间):2011.Venditte的资质不错,但是没有人能预测他 什麽,搞不好他在小联盟进展得很缓慢.虽然他右手投出来的卡夫球很会折,但是将来他应 该要做的是专心练好一边投球——他跟我说如果球团认为这对他最好的话他乐意去做;或 者是多练习新球种.如果人们知道有一半一半的机率会发生什麽样的事情,在这些事情发 生之前,目前情况可能都是对他有利的. 注:卡夫球=カーブ ボール=curve ball 算是台湾棒球的术语 因为curve的音调太轻所以常常发成日式台腔调的卡夫. 在这边翻成卡夫好像有点故意,不过天气太热就当作我脑筋烧坏好了. --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 59.105.27.39 1.影片里面Venditte不是高压,"上肩"是指over the top,3/4或有些放球点个别差异. 2.侧投有侧肩侧投和低肩侧投,Venditte算是侧肩侧投虽然原文没写,是我看影片加上的. ※ 编辑: ninini 来自: 59.105.27.39 (06/24 20:16) ※ 编辑: ninini 来自: 61.231.193.27 (07/07 15:26)