Friday, May 23, 2014

The Tommy John .... Dilema?

Earlier last week, one of the top young pitchers in baseball, Jose Fernandez, had an MRI that revealed damage to his Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL). Shortly after, sports writers/analysts/etc. across the country began searching for the reason why there seems to be a rise in UCL reconstruction surgeries (Tommy John Surgery). Many of these people even seemed somewhat angry that MLB teams "don't do more to protect their pitchers' elbows."

I'm suggesting that they shouldn't be blaming the MLB organizations, but maybe the parents/coaches of those MLB pitchers when they were ages 5-18.
Jose Fernandez of the Miami Marlins