The 2020 season demonstrated a significant increase in elbow injuries [2.7 (1.8-4.0), p<0.001]; when stratified by position, this increase remained significant for pitchers [pitchers: 3.5 (2.1-5.9), p<0.001; position players: 1.8 (0.9-3.6), p=0.073]. No other differences wer...
PHILADELPHIA -- Mark Kotsay compared Luis Medina to one of the best starting pitchers in baseball on Saturday. It was the kind of comparison a manager never wants to make about a young starting pitcher. The Athletics placed Medina on the 15-day injured list with a right elbow sprain, with ...
Potential Bulk Pitchers: Adbert Alzolay , Jharel Cotton , Colin Rea , Duane Underwood Jr. Injuries provide ripple effects for teams in this truncated season and the Cubs lost a starter at the onset due to a freak injury: Injury update on Jose Quintana from the Cubs... pic.twitter.com...
spin rates, grip strength and whatever other variables you wish. Of course they matter. But there is one leading cause. Pitchers have reached the physical limit of what the UCL can endure—and not for a pitch here and there, but red-lining the tachometer on every pitch because the game d...
(.406 in 1941).Yeteven with their great hitters and dominating pitchers—includingLuis Tiant,Roger Clemens, andPedro Martinez—the Red Sox were unable to win a championship between 1918 and 2004, often finding new and heartbreaking ways to lose crucial games. Making it to the World Series ...
strain that the Cardinals consider significant. It is expected that he will be out for an extended period of time which is heart-breaking for the young future ace. Keep him stashed on your roster because he could eventually become one of the top pitchers in the league if he can stay ...
Stoudt and Karcher are both pitchers who featured at Triple-A in 2022, while neither had dominant results, there’s a chance both would have been called upon anyway as pitching depth. Richardson is a hard-throwing right hander who’s struggled with injuries of late, but even though he’s ...
And thus, two of the best power pitchers of their time joined forces. Scherzer authored two no-hitters in his first season with Washington, and then the 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner received that honor in the NL in 2016 and '17. Injuries limited Strasburg throughout their time together,...
As the Yankees assess those possible acquisitions, they are also going to be fielding offers on their starting pitchers. They now have Fried,Gerrit Cole,Carlos Rodón,Luis Gil,Clarke Schmidt,Nestor CortesandMarcus Stromanas established rotation options, plus depth pieces likeJT Brubaker,Cody Poteet...
This year's crop of MLB free agents is dominated by starting pitchers, a good sign for those of you who like to see big dollars thrown around. Here's a look at 8 of the more notable players, including a sure to be wrong prediction on where he may end up soon, and for how much....