re: Baseball needs a speed limit

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I get the overall point. Pitching injuries in pro baseball are absurd to the point where TJ seems like a given for a young starter now and it’s trickling down more and more to the amateur levels

I’m not sure what the fix is, I don’t think this is it because the enforcement of it would slow the game down one way or the other and pitching isn’t like driving a car

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the fix is already here. The advanced arm care techniques where we know the imbalances and can fix them is 100% afforable right now even at the youth level and prices are coming down even more. Go look at the armcare.com app and do research on it.

other thing is things like the 90mph formula and those kinds of metrics will help kids understand....yea you may be able to throw 90+ without these using mostly arm, but if you want to stay healthy....there is a much better chance if you meet the metrics.

also the other thing is....Tommie John surgery is not something to be feared anymore. In fact at the college level and above, pitchers usually come back stronger and throwing faster.

velo is not going away period and will only advance more and more due to understanding how to safely develop it.

want more offense int he game?

1) ban the shift, its frickign retarded anyways and has changed the game and took away the contact hitter.

2) move 2nd base where it is supposed to be

3) make the bases bigger

4) tighter strike zones or better calls through auto strike zone

5) enforce true balk rules on LHP



If that fails the other two things you could do is

1) move the mound back 1'
2) widen the field to where the bases are no longer on the lines so there is more space between the lines without moving the bases


i say all that just to say the first 2 or 3 things are going to make a huge difference especially the ban on the shift.

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Tommie John surgery is not something to be feared anymore. In fact at the college level and above, pitchers usually come back stronger and throwing faster

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Consider the implications of this.

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baseball would be a better game if pitches over, say, 97 mph were banned.

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And pitches that break more than 12", and pitches that make a batter uncomfortable, and pitches that are just too difficult to hit.

There is nothing natural or healthy about normalizing surgery for 13-17 year olds because of athletics, I’m sorry

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Maybe come up with a defensible counter point

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My counterpoint is.. it’s the MLB, throw the ball as fricking hard as you want to

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True or false

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False. End of thread

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How would you enforce this

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Not that I agree with the idea, but you could say any pitch over 97MPH is an automatic ball.

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What about if a batter makes contact and puts the ball in play? Is the play dead retroactively? That would lead to a ton of false starts with the number of dead ball plays.

The bases are getting 3" bigger starting next season. 15" on each side to 18".

This happened in the minors already.

What's weird is that the 90' is measured from the tip of home plate to the back edge of first and third, but the 90' to second base from each back corner is measured to the middle of the base.

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There is nothing natural or healthy about normalizing surgery for 13-17 year olds because of athletics, I’m sorry

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didnt say there was. but do people freak about an acl tear and the kid comes back stronger in that knee? NOPE wtf is the difference

and i specifically said that we know the metrics that cause ucl injury and most important things to do to prevent it.

blame baseballs stupid arse unwritten rules and old school outlook on things causing most of the issues. People are scare to have kids lift. kids playing baseball should start arm care and lifting at 9 at the latest. But parents are dumb as shite and dont want that.

skipping lifting is like giving your 9 year old a corvette. At first its fine, the motor matches the breaks. But now every year you upgrade the motor but never the breaks.....after a few upgrades that becomes a huge issue.

its the same thing with the arm. we fail to train the deceleration muscles and many that do train them fail to train deceleration on the lay back creating imbalances. this is where the tech comes into play with the armcare.com device.

people wanna claim its overuse or curve balls etc when its not...its fricking imbalances or using just arm speed instead of using the strength to create the drive through hip shoulder seperation.

TLDR....nobody normalized surgery, PARENTS ARE frickIGN DUMB....KIDS NEED TO BE STENGTH TRAINING AND PERFORMING ARM CARE.

They need to make the panels of a baseball out of two different textures…so you could curve it like a whiffle ball.