Sup y'all,

I’ve been working on a short piece about the flurry of UCL tears and Tommy John surgeries we’ve seen in baseball this season. Check it out, and leave some tates if you have info to add! Comments welcome… would love to see our opinions on this.

http://news.rapgenius.com/Sports-genius-the-tommy-john-crisis-of-2014-annotated

Also, MAJOR shoutout to @Brock for the sick graphic!

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great job to everyone who made annotations, I need to upvote every single one of them

Thanks a bunch @ChiddyShadyFiasco, glad you liked it!

I saw a story on Outside The Lines one time, about Japanese HS pitchers and how they said one high schooler threw like 700 pitches in 4-5 days. The way they do it in Japan, I wonder how their arms don’t fall off with all the trouble pitchers seem to have nowadays.

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=9508993

That is fucking insane.

Ivan Nova is the latest to go down:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/04/20/yankees-rhp-ivan-nova-has-elbow-ligament-tear/7935421/

fuuuuuuuck

what the fuck

fuck

Jose Fernandez likely to get Tommy John Surgery

Damn

It’s sad. Just shows that SOMETHING is wrong with pitching today. He was held to a relatively modest pitch count too, the Marlins were careful with him.

Fernandez was one of my favorite players right now too. My fantasy team will miss him as well.

@ChiddyShadyFiasco Don’t worry, I forgot to start my pitchers in SG league today.

I was so bummed out when I heard about Jose’s injury. He became my favorite player last season who wasn’t a Phillie. I’ve been hearing a lot lately that the suspected reason behind the recent Tommy John’s is because the pitchers are throwing off-speed pitches as kids. I was at a Phillies game last Wednesday and in between innings they had a

“Ask The Phillies” segment and they asked Cliff Lee what advice he’d give a young pitcher. Cliff said something along the lines of “don’t throw off-speed pitches until you’re older than 15” just some food for thought

@white_boy My thoughts exactly. No reason for kids under 15 to be throwing curveballs and other junk before their arms are fully developed. The focus is always on velocity and striking people out, which is wrong. Little Leaguers need to be throwing fastballs and changeups… people underestimate the value of a solid changepiece.

Another issue is kids PITCHING year round. Arms need rest, especially growing ones. You can play year round all you want, but you have to take care of your arm.