How do state pitch count limits for amateurs affect future elbow injury rates?
There’s a new list of recommended ways to prevent serious elbow injuries. Now, how do we implement them?
Ben and Sam talk to Dodgers VP of Medical Services and Head Athletic Trainer Stan Conte about the pitcher injury epidemic.
Does PITCHf/x suggest that the Marlins’ injured ace should have been pulled from his final starts sooner?
Are recent Tommy John surgery victims about to become a new kind of contract extension candidate?
Ben and Sam discuss whether it would make sense for a team to sign a recent Tommy John surgery sufferer to a long-term contract extension.
Ben and Sam discuss the Jose Fernandez injury and talk to Corey Dawkins and Doug Thorburn about the Tommy John rehab process and why pitchers keep getting hurt.
Could PITCHf/x have held the key to preventing season-ending surgeries for two of this season’s Tommy John victims?
Remembering the late Dr. Frank Jobe’s medical marvel.
Did the Mets underestimate the potential cost of Matt Harvey’s high-pitch-count outings?
Did the Orioles make a mistake by exhausting all the other options before sending Dylan Bundy to surgery?
Ben and Sam discuss three things about the Twins, then talk about Dylan Bundy and the PRP approach to treating partial UCL tears.
Ben and Paul talk to Corey Dawkins about Chad Billingsley’s elbow, then discuss the Mariners’ decision to start Robert Andino over Brendan Ryan and the state of Seattle’s organization.
Ben and Sam talk about Brett Anderson’s Tuesday return from Tommy John surgery and its impact on Oakland’s potential playoff rotation, then discuss whether Stephen Drew would be wise to test the free-agent market this winter in light of the other shortstops available.
‘Pitchers are going to get hurt,’ says one team executive, but a select few pitchers defy the rule.
On Saturday, June 9, both Ryan Vogelsong and Jeff Francis started games for the teams that drafted them. Their journeys and their destinations couldn’t have been more different.