The industry of baseball—Major League teams, colleges, amateur coaches and high-tech training facilities—has failed an entire generation of pitchers. The development of pitchers is an abject failure. The quest to increase velocity has come at too high of a cost: health. It must change.
Forget the awkward attempt by union chief Tony Clark to politicize the injury epidemic among pitchers, as he brought up how the union voted against the pitch timer. He has no empirical evidence that the pitch timer—after a one-year sample size!—has caused more injuries. (The data shows the rate of injuries was unchanged last season.)
