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<\/a>Jose Fernandez was (arguably) the biggest name to go down to TJ surgery in 2014. Photo via thestar.com<\/p><\/div>\n
When we hit 20 MLB pitchers going under the knife for blown Ulnar Collateral Ligaments (UCL) on the 2014 season, I posted on possible reasons for the epidemic<\/a>.\u00a0 By the time the season was over, more than 90 players in professional baseball (and a handful of marquee amateurs, including two first round picks and our own) had gone under the knife for blown UCLs\/Tommy John surgery.\u00a0 2014 was the year of the elbow ligament, no question, in terms of volume and awareness.<\/p>\n This post lists all the major league pitchers who had the surgery this year, with links to the announcements as they happened,\u00a0along with stills of the pitchers’ mechanics to do a quickie thumb nail analysis of mechanics and whether there’s a relationship to the injury. At the bottom i’ve captured any significant news related to the surgery, MLB being proactive in preventing the injuries, and other TJ news.<\/p>\n First, here’s the complete Tommy John fall-out for the year for major league arms.\u00a0 According to the great injury tracking links below, no less than 91 players in all levels of pro baseball had the surgery in calendar year 2014, of which 29 were MLB-experienced pitchers.<\/p>\n (data from\u00a0baseballheatmaps.com<\/a>, which has\u00a0detailed Disabled List data<\/a>).<\/p>\n 10 of these 29 pitchers are getting the surgery for the 2nd time. \u00a0Wow.<\/p>\n Here’s links to other notable non-MLB pitchers who have gotten the surgery as well in 2014:<\/p>\n Here’s quickie images of every MLB starter diagnosed this year as they land to make a quick judgement about their mechanics:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quick and Dirty Mechanics analysis (images in same order as list of pitchers above, which is chronological in order of diagnosis in 2014):<\/p>\n Conclusions? None.\u00a0 They’re all over the road.\u00a0 TJ injuries this year happened to those thought to have “dangerous” mechanics and clean mechanics.\u00a0 TJ injuries happened to the league’s harder throwers (Rondon, Ventors, Fernandez) and its softest throwers (Medlen and Arroyo, both of whom are usually at the absolute bottom of the league in terms of fastball velocity).\u00a0 Starters and relievers, no discernable pattern.<\/p>\n I think all you can conclude is this: if you throw a lot of innings, you’re more prone to injury.\u00a0 I know, ground breaking analysis.<\/p>\n Other notable\/interesting links I’ve collected on the topic over the length of the season:<\/p>\n Hope you’ve found this trove of TJ links as interesting as I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When we hit 20 MLB pitchers going under the knife for blown Ulnar Collateral Ligaments (UCL) on the 2014 season, I posted on possible reasons for the epidemic.\u00a0 By the time the season was over, more than 90 players in professional baseball (and a handful of marquee amateurs, including two first round picks and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[874,2420,2406,230,891,2422,365,2671,967,2331,454,378,2421,509,1560,61,412,842,872,442,2053,1489,302,964,2418,1886,776,970,2515,339,1889,2166,229,2669,642,2672,1855,2419,2098,554,305,108,2673,2416,623,853,2670,511,1856,2674,2232,254],"class_list":["post-8978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlbpitching","category-minorspitching","tag-aj-griffen","tag-bobby-parnell","tag-brady-aiken","tag-brandon-beachy","tag-bronson-arroyo","tag-bruce-rondon","tag-bud-selig","tag-chris-withrow","tag-cory-gearrin","tag-cory-luebke","tag-craig-calcaterra","tag-danny-knobler","tag-david-hernandez","tag-david-schoenfield","tag-dirk-hayhurst","tag-erik-davis","tag-ivan-nova","tag-james-andrews","tag-jarrod-parker","tag-jeff-passan","tag-jeremy-hefner","tag-jerry-crasnick","tag-jon-heyman","tag-jonny-venters","tag-jose-cisnero","tag-jose-fernandez","tag-josh-johnson","tag-kris-medlen","tag-luke-hochevar","tag-mark-buehrle","tag-martin-perez","tag-masahiro-tanaka","tag-matt-moore","tag-nate-jones","tag-nate-silver","tag-neil-weinberg","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-pedro-figueroa","tag-peter-gammons","tag-peter-moylan","tag-scott-feldman","tag-sean-burnett","tag-shawn-anderson","tag-stephania-bell","tag-tim-brown","tag-tommy-john","tag-trevor-bell","tag-tyler-chatwood","tag-tyler-skaggs","tag-will-carrol","tag-yordano-ventura","tag-zack-greinke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978","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=8978"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8978\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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