Trout hurt again, naturally

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

It certainly seems that way. Is there too much emphasis on strength and not enough on flexibility? Is it just that in the past players tended to play through injuries whereas now a hangnail sends them to the DL? Something else?

It makes me appreciate even more what Hank Aaron achieved. Even though he's carved into the Mount Rushmore of baseball, I think he's probably underrated. Along the same lines, I suspect that the achievements of the lithe Ichiro (with his custom-made flexibility machines) will look even more impressive in hindsight. I was reading somewhere that the guy throws in the upper 80s right now, as a 50 year old.