Is MLB's Wave Of Injuries About To Get Even Worse?
The Lead
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🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Just over two weeks into the 2020 season, Major League Baseball has seen an alarming number of injuries to pitchers, including Justin Verlander, Mike Soroka and Shohei Ohtani, who was back on the mound for the first time in nearly two years after Tommy John surgery. Today, we’re joined by The Athletic’s Eno Sarris to look more closely at the cases of Verlander, Ohtani and Eduardo Rodriguez, and discuss whether this whole wave of injuries could actually get worse.
Read Eno Sarris’s story about the pitching injuries across Major League Baseball: https://theathletic.com/1961073/2020/07/29/baseballs-predicted-injury-rash-is-here-now-what/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:31.0 | We're just over two weeks into the MLB season and pictures have been dropping like flies. |
| 0:38.0 | Sriroka tumbles off the mountain, he's still down. |
| 0:42.0 | Mike Sriroka went down on a heap and he is limping toward the foul line. |
| 0:46.0 | For sure, sir, with the injury that tweaked of the hamstring, we got Strasbourg and Rurlander. |
| 0:52.0 | Today, the Athletics Enos Saras joins us to talk about some of the stars who have gone down |
| 0:57.0 | to the sea. |
| 0:58.0 | What's behind the surgeon injuries and whether it could actually get worse? |
| 1:02.0 | Three times more pictures have been injured than the average year and twice the worst year |
| 1:08.6 | on record in the last ten years. |
| 1:10.7 | It's going to keep going. |
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