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

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I agree that we just don't know.

Personally I am a huge fan of multiple sports, giving kids a break (not only physical but mental) and not over pitching them, particularly at a young age.

One other comment related to conditioning/"number of bullets". I am a huge fan of Jaeger however he contends that many injuries are related to lack of conditioning, which is probably true, however he is a proponent of year round conditioning (throwing) using the logic that you don't stop conditioning for other sports, but I would argue that you cross condition for other sports, sprinters for example have a very set routine on what they work on in and out of season. They move from heavy lifting, to explosive, then to run conditioning and it would make sense to have the same approach with pitchers.

4/17/148:47 AM

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