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You mean like the shear force that results from torque movement??

As high as 35 percent of lumbar disk herniations in elite professional athletes occur in baseball players, because the axial rotation of the spine during hitting and pitching is considerably higher than it is in other sports…. For some comparison, according to a 2012 study done by Dr. Glenn Fleisig and colleagues at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala., baseball hitters get an average of 46 degrees of trunk rotation. Pitchers get 55 degrees, while a tennis forehand produces just 30 degrees of rotation.“ https://www.mlb.com/news/miguel-cabrera-gets-treatment-for-back-injury-c259639274

As high as 35 percent of lumbar disk herniations in elite professional athletes occur in baseball players, because the axial rotation of the spine during hitting and pitching is considerably higher than it is in other sports…. For some comparison, according to a 2012 study done by Dr. Glenn Fleisig and colleagues at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala., baseball hitters get an average of 46 degrees of trunk rotation. Pitchers get 55 degrees, while a tennis forehand produces just 30 degrees of rotation.“ https://www.mlb.com/news/miguel-cabrera-gets-treatment-for-back-injury-c259639274

https://www.mlb.com/news/miguel-cabrera-gets-treatment-for-back-injury-c259639274

Well it obviously didn’t heal if there was some previously unannounced injury. Players have played through herniated discs but at some point there has to be a recovery

How do explain this then? Baseball players sitting at a significantly higher rate? “Major League Baseball (MLB) players demonstrated a significantly higher RTP rate than those of other sports, and conversely, National Football League (NFL) athletes had a lower RTP rate“ “It has been postulated that the repetitive torque-producing motions of a baseball player may have negative implications after a disk injury….Ninety-seven percent of baseball athletes successfully returned to play at an average of 6.6 months after diagnosis.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22229920/

He was never diagnosed with herniated disc previously

Looked like it was out of his reach from one angle

After nine starts last year, Cease had barely averaged 5 innings a start and had a 4.24 ERA

Maybe for an average person. For a baseball player it is obviously the repetitive, violent torque movements. That is why disc herniations are far more common in baseball than other sports even though those athletes also sit on planes

The average recovery for baseball players for herniated disc is over six months, so odds are his season is in fact cooked. The average person isn’t torquing his back hundreds of times per week swinging baseball bats

By that rationale the mariners should be a mash unit by now

Yeah that seems like the most ridiculous explanation possible. These guys are constantly flying. Arizona to Miami?? How do Az and Miami manage to field teams?

RIP Moncada’s ‘23 season. We hardly knew ye

There is no attendance issue if they are able to operate a consistently competitive franchise with those levels, which they are clearly are

Grifol is the anti-Ozzie. And not in a good way. He doesn’t know sox fans if he thinks anyone is going to swallow what he’s dishing out

Why? The sox would suck either way

It’s definitely happening. If the Sox hadn’t gone full blown horse s%*# the last couple years, the ballpark wouldn’t be a ghost town today

Yeah I lived in maricopa county back when the dbacks won the world series and were in the playoffs several times but I still couldn’t shake my sox-ness. But I still can’t help but imagine

Only the good die young

best hitter of all time, with arms that look almost exactly like mine, a guy who never lifts a weight

Like Henry Aaron said, it’s all in the wrists. This is why little guys like Willie Mays can hit 660 homeruns and the best hitter of all time was a splendid splinter

Colas, Kopech and Zavala for Jeff Szmardzjia to shore up the rotation

He quite likely is at least in early stages of dementia at this point so intelligence may be irrelevant