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iliekcereal
It seems like every day we’re learning about another pitcher needing TJ surgery. That is alarming to say the least.
Michael 22
Again it’s showing my age, but in my day, when pitchers “pitched” and putting in 300+ innings a year was commonplace (Mickey Lolich pitched 376 one year), all you heard about were slightly sore shoulders. They’d miss two starts and come right back.
Lance
I’m old enough to remember Lolich and yes, while he and Spahn and Ryan were workhorse pitchers who lasted a long time, there were also a lot of pitchers whose careers ended pretty early probably from too many innings/pitches: Koufax, Drysdale, Messersmith, Maloney, Chance & McLain.
Michael 22
With due respect, Lance, Koufax was arthritic and McLain had “other problems”.
Lance
And you don’t think that Koufax throwing 688 innings (not including spring training games) and 56 complete games his last two years had a little something to do with that arthritis? McLain had “other problems” of course but his big problem was he pitched 684 innings and 52 CG’s his last two good years in Det and his arm was never the same. Denny had 125 cortisone shots alone in his career. When Sandy retired, he said “too many shots.”
NoAZPhilsPhan
In our day we played baseball during the summer (a bit longer in warm weather areas) and most of us played because they enjoyed it. Now many kids play year-round, they work out at sports academies or have private coaches and the overall mindset is you will only be successful if you can throw harder than the other guy. I know that I have posted this paraphrasing of Dr. Jobe before but it is worth repeating….Throwing is good but throwing hard all the time is very bad and a youngster throwing a curveball is not bad. What is bad is that youngster not being taught how to properly throw a curveball. The current problem does not begin at the MLB level… It begins much, much sooner.
NoAZPhilsPhan
17 so far this year but there are still ways to go to the 2012.
MLB only #’s 1996 – (10 TJS)…97 (7)…98 (0)….99 (22)…. 2000 (26)….2001 (25)…. 2002 (38)….2003 (29)….2004 (33)…. 2005 (13)…. 2006 (10)…. 2007 (7)….2008 (8)…. 2009 (8)….2010 (11)….2011 (30)….2012 (46)….2013 (25)….2014 (29). I would shudder to even think how many there have been if I included MiLB as well.
There has been no significant improvement in the surgery itself since the 1980s. Prior to 1996 the largest number of surgeries done in one year was 2.
Tommets
Glad they’re finally taking some action and doing research on this epidemic. It needs to get figured out fast.