re: 57% of Tommy John surgeries in USA performed on 15-19 year olds .

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57% of Tommy John surgeries in USA performed on 15-19 year olds .

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Shut it down! Two weeks to flatten the curve!

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The AA teams are riding pitchers out to 150+ pitches in a weekend. I've seen a kid pitch complete games both saturday and sunday and also do relief. Not low scoring games either. He gave up 30 runs at least. lol rip that kid's future.

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didn’t happen

My kid played a lot from 7-12. Once he started growing he took much more time off. People act as if he quit playing. But his arm is stronger his hitting metrics increased. His overall athleticism skyrocketed by working out hard and playing football

This year round stuff is crazy. If he develops and enjoys it and has a chance at all to play further he can play summers again. Or we can go fishing. Up to him

But I saw a lot of decent ball players play all summer. Going to showcases with 72 mph arms, 8 second sixties and average EV. I don’t get it.

But to each his own.

Well there are a lot more 15 to 19 year olds playing baseball than 19+

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the opposite is my experience

The early blooming or favorable birthday beasts all got passed by later developing dudes with good work ethics.

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Yep. Some kids develop hand eye coordination at an earlier age than others. Those kids dominate in the first few years (6-8). Athleticism dominates for the next few years (9-12). Fundamentals really start to take over 12+. Obviously, a kid with freak athleticism has a little more room for error when it comes to fundamentals.

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But what's the alternative? There's two options that are available in most communities: rec ball and travel ball. Kids that end up playing for their HS teams aren't sitting the bench in rec ball either, and rec ball is, in most places, 2 games and 1 practice per week.

The "select model" isn't perfect by any means. And it is certainly much different than HS sports, but there currently isn't a model out there that resembles HS sports. So I'm not really sure what the alternative is.

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I agree with you that currently there isn't a good alternative. The select model could easily be tweaked to benefit the kids but it's not good for the bottom line of the parks or the coaches so it won't change. The current model has us falling behind Europe in basketball and the Dominican and other countries like that in baseball but we keep it up.

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I agree with you that currently there isn't a good alternative. The select model could easily be tweaked to benefit the kids but it's not good for the bottom line of the parks or the coaches so it won't change. The current model has us falling behind Europe in basketball and the Dominican and other countries like that in baseball but we keep it up.

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I'm not very familiar with AAU basketball. I agree that travel baseball is 100% designed to financially benefit the "academies." But if you want to play the game against good competition, it's the only option.

We aren’t even talking about how the deterioration of local rec sports deprived kids and the community of healthy activities and civic opportunities.

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57% of Tommy John surgeries in USA performed on 15-19 year olds .

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That's crazy. It's almost like 99% of all athletes are most active between those ages. Most will never play any type of team sport in their lives as soon as they leave high school.

The vast majority of pitchers are 15-19. I’m surprised it’s not more than 57%.