Reply to "Over use of young pitchers fueling Tommy John surgery"

hueysdad1,000+ posts

It's probably from travel ball and to a lesser extent LL. My son has been seeing curve balls since he was 9 years old. After you get past the two or three kids on the team that can throw it past you and they are throwing some junk too the"junk baller" appears warming up. Nothing like seeing a 9-13 year old throwing 70% junk with varying degrees of success . And the bad thing is there are worse things than that . How about the kid who pitches the first game on Friday,eats up an inning or two Saturday so they can get the one seed (gotta have it),possibly has to come in the must win in bracket play on Sunday, and then pitches in the SHIP. And this happens before High school.

4/16/1410:26 AM

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