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chieftoto
Phillies: Puk
Reds: Pint
Braves: Lewis
seamaholic 2
Senzel is ahead of Lewis now (Lewis has lost his power the last month). Don’t forget Jason Groome either.
Brixton
Teams naturally don’t take high school pitchers at the top of the draft due to risk. I would expect Groome to fall lower than 1:3. Phillies will end up with Puk, or the best college hitter available.
Reds should take the best talent, and the Braves I would expect to take the best position player, or Groome/Pint.
pd14athletics
Geez, a high schooler that can hit 102?
seamaholic 2
Paging Dr. Andrews. Dr. Andrews, please pick up the white courtesy phone …
Brixton
While I’m no doctor, I don’t believe that TJ has much to do with velocity, rather than mechanics. Jamie Moyer and Arroyo, among others, had the surgery without having much velocity.
Assuming a pitcher will blow out because he throws hard is naive.
chesteraarthur
There have been a few articles detailing how increased velocity (or more likely maximum effort) does seem to correlate to more tjs pitchers.
eilexx
I believe the issue of tearing the ligaments has to do with how hard a pitcher throws, not how much velocity they achieve. While not that long ago pitchers didn’t throw every pitch—fastball, curve, changeup—with every ounce of their strength, they mostly seem to now. Even power pitchers left something behind and could “reach back” for more when needed. Today, it’s all about max effort at all times, putting enormous pressure on the arm, shoulder, ligaments and tendons. It doesn’t matter if your 100, 90 or 75…if you do it with all your strength it puts that pressure and can cause the injuries.
staypuft
Correlation does not equal causation.
Can I turn around and say that fastball velocity in the past 10 years has resulted in a significant drop in shoulder injuries? B/c just like elbow injuries are up, shoulder injuries are down.
Pitchers are losing, roughly, the same amount of days now as they were years ago.
Solomon
So the halos take that home schooled guy
bartfart10
How about we let the guy pitch without predicting/possibly hoping a guy ends up sigh Tommy John. Pitchers can’t throw hard without some dumbass saying he’ll have tommy john and hitters can’t drop bombs with some other idiot saying he’s on steroids. Grow up Peter Pan.
stymeedone
Unfortunately, it seems that the fantasy is believing that the bombs come without the PEDs, and that pitchers don’t undergo TJS. It would be nice if reality supported your claims, but during my lifetime, I have seen too many cheaters, and watched TJS become common place.