Ryan Freel first major leaguer diagnosed with CTE

With the amount of study going on for this issue, due to the NFL and combat-related mTBI/TBI, I think we are going to see more and more people of many occupations identified as having had this, whereas before it wouldn't have been on the radar of things to check post-mortem.

I truly believe this was a huge reason why they are going to change the play at home plate.

I know that Mike Matheny was a huge advocate, his career was cut short because of all the concussions he sustained.

Too much info to ignore CTE.

Well maybe that will quiet those baseball folks (including those on this site!) who believe concussions don't happen in baseball.

I believe there is a lot to come regarding CTE. I have to wonder if there won't be studies done on individuals who have no known history of head trauma and see if any of them have CTE or anything like it. It seems every individual diagnosed with it so far has been someone who we would suspect may have it. But are we missing people with CTE simply because they don't have the history to warrant that investigation?

Right now there is a strong correlation between head trauma and CTE. My question is this: Is this correlation because that's who these researchers are studying?

Will be interesting to follow...

No concussions in baseball? Try hitting an outfield fence full speed while your right fielder is yelling "Plenty of room."

I'm with you! But I've had people tell me on this site that concussions don't happen in baseball. Apparently I was only pretending to play baseball, but wasn't actually doing so when I suffered 5 different concussions growing up...

I took line drives off the head on two different occasions in HS baseball. Each is not so memorable...

Play hard but play smart.

Good news.