A Closer Look at Pitcher Injuries Throughout Baseball
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Eno, DVR and Britt take a closer look at pitcher injuries that have mounted at all levels in recent years, and dissect the varying reasons behind the significant increase in major elbow and shoulder problems. Plus, they consider the fast start of the Pirates and the dismal start of the Marlins in their first installment of 'Buy, Sell, Hold' for 2024.
Rundown
1:25 The Problem Starts at Youth Levels
7:31 Incentivizing Starters with In-Game Rules to Reduce Velocity & Pitch Deeper Into Games
12:33 Justin Verlander's Thoughts on the Uptick in Injuries
17:58 Lack of Consistency Across Different Levels
21:13 Adding More Factors to a Multi-Factor Problem
26:55 Injuries Spike Early in the Season
32:11 The Benefits of Playing on Multiple Sports
36:42 Strikeout Rate Growth from the 1970-1990 20-Year Window Compared to 2004-2024
42:02 Eno's Unexpected Suggestion for a Solution
46:15 Buy, Sell, Hold: The Pirates' 9-2 Start
54:22 Buy, Sell, Hold: The Marlins' Miserable 1-10 Start
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| 1:04.7 | In the time since we started planning this show, even from the time this morning that we started putting the graphics together for this show, another pitcher got hurt. |
| 1:11.5 | Or at least was revealed to have an elbow injury, right? That's what it's like. Pitchers, as we've learned over the years, |
| 1:16.2 | they're hurt all the time. They're hurt at times we don't even know about. And it's reaching this point where someone has to figure this out, or a group of someone. It's not going to be an |
| 1:23.8 | easy solution, right? This is the biggest problem in baseball. And we talked a little |
| 1:30.2 | bit about the who, the more specific who from the weekend with Spencer Strider going down. |
| 1:37.4 | You look at the way the injuries are piling up in the early part of the season every year. |
| 1:43.3 | This is a massive problem. |
| 1:44.9 | We can't even go a day without a new pitcher landing on the shelf with an elbow injury. |
| 1:50.9 | This time it's Nick Povetta. |
| 1:52.1 | It's unreal. |
| 1:53.5 | Where do we even begin when injuries are happening this fast? |
| 1:57.2 | Well, guys, the problem I think is that it's not a MLB problem. It's a Little League youth baseball |
| 2:04.0 | problem that by the time it permeates up, we're looking at fixing the symptoms and we're not |
| 2:11.8 | looking at fixing the disease. I think the problem is so many of these guys, let's take Kateade Cavali with the Nationals, for example, top draft pick has yet to pitch for the Nationals, has already had Tommy John surgery, right? |
| 2:25.6 | And we know the biggest precursor to injury is, have you been injured? |
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