Outside The Confines: The butcher’s bill

Ken Blaze-USA TODAY SportsI hope everyone feels better today. And that no one has an elbow injury.

This big story in baseball is injuries, in particular to pitchers. Jeff Passan writes that MLB and the Players Association must work together to do something about the rash of injuries.

By the way, Passan’s book The Arm is a few years old at this point, but it’s well worth reading to get more insight into this issue. There’s a lot on the Cubs signing Jon Lester in that book as well.

Jay Jaffe writes that the recent rash of injuries brings up lots of questions and few answers.

Eno Sarris tries to delve into the data on what is causing these injuries. (The Athletic sub. req.) The short answer is…