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Velocity is the primary cause of elbow injuries. Research shows this. Not so much for shoulder injuries. The almost double the rate of injuries is not just pitchers, it's a huge increase in position players. It is a big issue as it is a huge increase especially if it's an outlier. This would add credence to the time off from baseball activities could be a cause we have never really considered. Not to say that it is but it brings up the new ideas to consider. It is definitely not normal to have this huge increase in injury rate from one year to the next. The lack of baseball specific activity may not be the cause but it certainly needs to be investgated.

Of course there can be no conclusions as we are looking at just one season to another. The type of workouts they do would be irrelevant from the research perspective as none of the workouts can replicate true baseball activity. The question is is baseball specific enough that workouts can't replicate it. However with an almost double the injury rate from last year to this year it is an interesting discussion and will lead to further research on it because anecdotally it sure looks like there is a relationship.

It depends where they are in the healing process. We've found that adding stress to any process increases the strength of the tissue. An example is why we put people in boots for ankle/foot fractures as opposed to casts like we used to. After about 8 weeks nearly all injuries are healed but it takes time to to regain the strength and control of the muscles. The new part here is how specific baseball activities are. Most of these players getting injured worked out for the last year but for the first time in the lives they worked out more than played baseball. It really seems to have a negative effect in their health.

Agreed. It's tough to call them injury prone because they are all weird injuries. However it does keep happening.

Not due to this injury but he seems to one of those guys that always has issues. Similar to Robert.

After reading about the latest muscle injuries and Engels comments I think the injuries are from what the exercise field refers to as the SAID principle. Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands. In other words nothing really gets you ready to play baseball other than playing baseball. We've always known this in running. We knew it was unique and you need to run to get your body to run. You can to other thing to prepare the body bit you need to run. We've never thought baseball was that specific as we see running to first base is just running. But coming out of the box and stretching to first look to be specific activities that need the adaptations. Anyway just thought I would share some discussions we've been having in the medical field about all of these injuries.

Doesn't mean people shouldn't be held accountable for what they say.

Good point.

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It would be next year so they will find out the rest of this year.

TLR has been doing that and posters complain about it

It means the tear is bad enough that they don't think the ends are close enough that they'll heal together. As I said earlier the proximal attachment is a bad area for a tear as it hurts all of the hamstrings and there is no chance compensation.

They will return. How effective they are without playing for months is a different story.

September is probably the absolute best case, if they don't do surgery.

Definitely need to add more dynamic flexibility activities.

I doubt it.

Ouch. This means it's the common origin of all the hamstrings it's a tougher rehab than Engle. Explains the conservative nature of going straight to the 60 day IL

Traveling down I80 in Iowa. All of the drive through at the fast food restaurants were 10 deep and not moving. One McDonald's had a sign that said 14 and 15 year Olds are encouraged to apply. Didn't know employees were that hard to find. Also didn't realize that was even legal.

Traveling down I80 in Iowa and the lines at the drive through fast food restaurants were all at least 10 cars long and not moving. One McDonald's had a sign that said 14 and 15 year Olds are encouraged to apply. Didn't realize it was that hard to find employees. Also didn't realize that was even legal.

Very true. Most are somewhere between 2-8 weeks.

They could treat him like Kopech this year.

Paulaner is excellent. Hacker-Pschorr is my go to.

Agreed. Not an IPA fan. I prefer the less bitter lower IBU beers like heifeweiss. Nothing better than a good chewy heifeweiss.

That's true. I should have other examples of predictive ones not wRC+.

I think the hitters are making their own problems as well. The launch angle trend is really decreasing the offense from an action point of view. It much easier for a pitcher to strike out a hitter when they are increasing the launch angle and swining for the fences on every pitch. If they didn't do this they could get on top of a high fastball much easier.