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Originally Posted by packs
To be fair the baseball season is the most grueling of any sport. It's almost 6 months long and 7 months if you make it to the World Series.
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True, but these guys are getting hurt early in the season.
I've been having an ongoing chat with Will Carroll. Last night, Jason Kendall (former MLB catcher) was on the Olbermann show. He has a theory that pitchers are getting these injuries more often because they are weight training more. It seems at least plausible that the increased mass they are adding decreases the flexibility of the arm, and the larger muscles are putting more torque on the ligaments.
Nolan Ryan was incredibly conditioned. He rode the exercise bike for hours every day, and worked on his ranch pretty much every day. But he never did any real weight training, at least not the kind that built muscle mass.
I think baseball players are pushing the human body as far as it can go.
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