Happy Tuesday, Athletics Nation!
There has been a lot of discourse recently around the rate of elbow injuries plaguing MLB right now due to the sheer number of superstar pitchers going down with injury right now. The most recent victims, Braves righty Spencer Strider and former Cy Young winner Shane Bieber, are the most recent victims and have really spurred the conversation recently as more and more people become concerned with the state of pitchers health in the modern MLB.
It’s not just those two who have gone down with major elbow problems. Yankees right-hander Gerrit Cole expressed his concern regarding pitching injuries by bringing up a good point: the pitch clock:
“To be able to say you implement something in one year and it has no effect is shortsighted.