{"id":8782,"date":"2014-04-16T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2014-04-16T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T17:29:44","slug":"fantastic-verducci-article-on-the-staggering-rise-of-pitching-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8782","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Verducci article on the staggering rise of pitching injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2671\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/moorematt-alds-game-1_ap-via-baynews9.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2671\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2671\" alt=\"Matt Moore  becomes the 20th TJ surgery so far this year.  Photo AP Photo\/Tony Gutierrez via baynews9.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/moorematt-alds-game-1_ap-via-baynews9.com_-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Moore becomes the 20th TJ surgery so far this year. Photo AP Photo\/Tony Gutierrez via baynews9.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you havn&#8217;t read the <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/mlb\/news\/20140415\/tommy-john-surgery-high-school-pitchers-jameson-taillon\/index.html\">latest\u00a0<strong>Tom Verducci<\/strong> article<\/a>, please do so. \u00a0It has some great facts related to the rise in pitching velocity, driven by the rise of travel-league baseball and the overuse of kids&#8217; arms as youth pitchers in show-cases (a completely new and &#8220;American&#8221; development system, he adds, in that just one of the 20 Tommy John surgeries suffered so far this year was on a non-american hurler). \u00a0At least 1\/3rd of MLB pitchers have now had the surgery and it seems like that number will only rise.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, there was a rather large uproar in the scouting ranks when NC State&#8217;s phenom\u00a0<strong>Carlos Rodon<\/strong> was pushed back out on the mound so that he could <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/blog\/keith-law\/post?id=2258\">throw pitches #119 through #134 on the night<\/a>\u00a0for his under-performing college team that looks like it may miss the post-season after being ranked in the pre-season top 5 by most publications. \u00a0And with good reason; the studies Verducci found show that kids have something like a 36-fold increase in pitching injuries when they throw after reaching a fatigue state. \u00a0If i&#8217;m Houston, Miami, or one of the Chicago teams &#8230; i&#8217;m looking long and hard at Rodon right now anyway (he&#8217;s regressed badly this spring and has fallen out of the 1-1 discussion), and having him throw 130+ pitches when that&#8217;s only happened a few times in the past few years in the pros would scare me. \u00a0You&#8217;re committing multiple millions of dollars there; you want damaged goods?<\/p>\n<p>Scary stuff, especially if you have a kid out there who&#8217;s looking like he&#8217;s a stud and is getting a ton of pressure to play multiple travel schedules.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/mlb\/news\/20140415\/tommy-john-surgery-high-school-pitchers-jameson-taillon\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you havn&#8217;t read the latest\u00a0Tom Verducci article, please do so. \u00a0It has some great facts related to the rise in pitching velocity, driven by the rise of travel-league baseball and the overuse of kids&#8217; arms as youth pitchers in show-cases (a completely new and &#8220;American&#8221; development system, he adds, in that just one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1835,441,853],"class_list":["post-8782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-tom-verducci","tag-tommy-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8782\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}