Originally Posted by PGStaff:
This writer interviewed me for over an hour. He only used a couple quotes. Not even the best ones IMO.
Did they need to check you for overuse too? 
I do feel abused at times.
Some media people interview you just to see if they can ultimately get you to supply a quote that they can fit into the theme of an article they already have planned. Very few these days just investigate the facts and report the facts.
If only a smattering of your quotes were used, you should take that as an indication that the story he wanted to write didn't jibe with your point of view very much.
At one point he asked me about Travel Baseball and Showcases contributing to the problem. My reply was that I see much more abuse at other places. I even sent him the list of the players with TJ surgery since 2008. On that list every Minor League and Major League player that had attended a PG Showcase or tournament was identified.
BTW, that list even surprised me. Since 2008 more than 80% of all the draft picks had played in at least one PG event. Bed on that I expected similar percentage of TJ surgeries. What the list showed was that 31% of all those TJ surgeries were performed on those players that attended a PG event. So we had 80% of the players, but only 31% of the TJ surgeries.
I don't really know what that means, but it sure is strange. He did not blame showcases in his article. On the other hand, we can't control the players and what goes on year around.
We just held the PG National Showcase. A very good pitcher had thrown 9 pitches and the lightning detector went off. This caused a one hour delay so we told the pitcher he was done. It is not what he wanted to hear, but luckily he went along with it. Dylan Bundy had TJ surgery last year. He was in our All American Game in San Diego while in high school. He pitched in the Connie Mack World Series two days before the All American game. He was ranked the #1 pitcher in his class and begged us to let him pitch an inning. We told him no, we didn't want to be responsible for allowing a first round pick to blow his arm. We let him hit! He would be one of that 31% that we had at an event and had TJ surgery later on.
For some reason high school, college and pro baseball seem to be escape any of the blame. So do many other levels and organizations. The way I see it, it is a baseball problem, I have seen abuse at every level other than in showcase events. ALL of baseball should share if there is blame to hand out. That includes Perfect Game along with everyone else involved in baseball. And to blame the damn radar gun is rediculous.