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Reply to "Interesting article on young pitchers and arm injuries."

ctiger, the study is pretty clear that the proliferation of breaking balls at younger ages is the culprit. It makes no distinction as to proper mechanics of the thrown breaking ball. So your assertion tha the point of the article is that if it is thrown properly or not is not even addressed. That is just your belief. It may or may not be true, but it doesn't change the results of Dr. Andrews study.

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In our program that is the 1st thing we do with our freshman. We teach them a change -up and tell them if they want to throw for us they will need to throw this pitch for strikes before thwey can throw one pitch on the varsity.


My son would not have been able to pitch for you. He could not throw a quality change until his senior year. Some guys never learn the change-up very well and still pitch quite well.
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