Jon Morgan Shields
2023 / 6'2" / 192
Ambidextrous Pitcher
Switch Hitter
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Jon Morgan Shields, Ambidextrous Pitcher
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About Jon
For the Love of Competition
The road to high-level athletics isn’t an easy one. Jon Morgan Shields (2023), Ambidextrous Pitcher did not take the commonly-traveled road in high-level baseball. Now having been in several high-level organizations, including 4th / Final level NTIS 15u (USA Baseball in Cary, NC), Bandidos Black 2021, EvoShield Canes 2021, Adidas 2022 National Team (in Phoenix), he began to form his ambidextrous skill set at the age of 5 years old. When his father and coach of his travel team, Scott Morgan Shields, was short of infielders he looked to his son. Being a natural Left-Handed pitcher, his dad purchased a right hand glove and asked his son to throw both ways. In about a year, Jon was the team's second baseman competing at the top level of his age in baseball. Soon thereafter, Jon began integrating his right arm into pitching, and his dad purchased his first ambidextrous glove. He since has upgraded this glove to the same one used by MLB ambidextrous player, Pat Venditte*, who just traded from the Los Angeles Dodgers organization to the Marlins, and have found value in Venditte perhaps reacting to the new 2020 MLB pitching rules limiting pitcher changes. Jon has modeled himself after several pitchers. Jon greatly admires Pay Venditte for making into the MLB, and pioneering switch pitching.
* For an 2017 interview of Pat Venditte, press here.
For a video of Pat Venditte against a switch hitter, which caused creation of the Venditte Rule, press here
To read about and understand the Venditte Rule, press here.
Jon Shields Makes Top Prospect List from Main Event, Perfect Game 2019 at Ft. Myers (click here). I feel so humbled to be part of this list!
