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Baseball’s Pitch to Fix Pitchers: Make Them Throw More
With elbow injuries surging and the role of starters plummeting, the San Francisco Giants are deploying a counterintuitive ...
Baseball’s 100 mph obsession is ruining the art of pitching | PennLive letters
The fixation on maximum velocity is creating a generation of throwers who lack the strategic finesse that made baseball's ...
No butterfingers in baseball: Understanding slip between fingertips and the ball
Before June 3, 2021, baseballs spun more. That's the day when Major League Baseball (MLB) said it would begin cleaning up a ...
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There’s no easy answers for slowing down rising level of pitching injuries at all levels of baseball
Major League Baseball issued a 62-page report in December that showed how the focus on throwing with increased velocity and using maximum effort on every pitch was a likely reason for the increase in ...
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How Analytics Marginalized Baseball’s Superstar Pitchers
One day at Wrigley Field last May, Paul Skenes was pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates, carving out a small piece of baseball history in his second big-league game. Just two years before ...