The Welcome to episode 118 of the Sleeper into Bus

podcast brought to you by fan graphs.com today is Tuesday May the 13th

otherwise known as the day and morning of Jose Fernandez as we unfortunately learned he is done for at least 12 months. You know I hope

you're doing better than in Jose Fernandez is. Oh man I mean my elbow still works, but I do have one team that was very happy to have them.

I guess I'm just happy I don't have...

You know, I don't spend a lot on pitchers, so this was the year that you were going to spend a lot

on Fernandez because he was young and you know everything was going to be fine at least this year

right you would think so didn't work out that way.

One thing I did notice just looking backwards at Fernandez before we look forward was that

he threw the most curves in baseball this year and had the best whiff rate on those curves.

So, you know, there's been, it's not the most robust finding.

You know, Zimmerman found that DL percentages go up if you use the curb all more than 30% of the time.

It's not the most robust finding in that it's, you know, DL percentage goes up from like 39 to 45 or 46 percent or something.

But it is there and you know I've talked to some pitchers, college pitchers that you know no longer

pitched because of certain injuries and yeah they say one said you know no longer pitch because of certain injuries and yeah they say one said you know I

used to have a pretty good curve ball I hurt my shoulder in college and now anytime I

even if I just show you what a curveball looks like I feel it in my shoulder

So I think there is some you know there is something to the way that you yank down on the curveball on the way that you sort of flip the slider that puts

stress on different parts of your body and I know there are some mechanics people out there

say well if you do it right there isn't stress but you know we've seen Fernandez kind of struggle with his

mechanics to some degree here there so maybe it's a combination of the two and you know

we can't say that we knew it was coming but the only thing I could say who knew it was coming in within the

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