Vandy Pitchers potentially sitting out the Weekend...

[The Federalist Engineer]

https://247sports.com/college/vanderbilt/Article/Vanderbilt-Commodores-Tim-Corbin-provides-updates-on-Mason-Hickman-and-Kumar-Rocker-injury-144420696/


It's not just us with these issues.

Also, remember Kevin Abel? The Freshman that won 4 games in the College World Series? Welp, he is not on the Oregon State roster in 2020 and has only pitched 16 innings for OSU since then.

https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2020/02/kevin-abel-hero-of-oregon-states-2018-college-baseball-championship-not-on-beavers-2020-roster-and-wont-play-this-season.html

[Ezsoil]

Yeah the ruined his arm by throwing 270 pitches in four days

[Commercecomet24]

Yeah the ruined his arm by throwing 270 pitches in four days

Yeah that was total insanity! Complete lack of regard for the player by the coaching staff. Smh

[Skydawg1]

That's a shame. But at least he did us a solid and denied the #Omahogs a natty.*

[MetEdDawg]

Yeah the ruined his arm by throwing 270 pitches in four days

What's crazy is that 75 years ago in baseball this was commonplace. You would see guys start games 1 and 3 of a playoff series and go the entirety of both games.

[Maverick]

What's crazy is that 75 years ago in baseball this was commonplace. You would see guys start games 1 and 3 of a playoff series and go the entirety of both games.

I think the difference may be velocity now though....

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

I think the difference may be velocity now though....

Nah man these boys just ain't country strong like they were in the good ole days*

[Saltydog]

Granted we all know the scholly advantages they have but the difference between us losing a couple and them losing a couple is the quality of their depth......

[Todd4State]

Granted we all know the scholly advantages they have but the difference between us losing a couple and them losing a couple is the quality of their depth......

Their quality is mostly on their pitching staff and losses like that still affect them.

[Maverick]

Nah man these boys just ain't country strong like they were in the good ole days*

Also true haha! People don't play outside like they used to. I've heard people make comments before that it's led to a lot of the knee injuries and stuff we see now. I'm sure it's a mixture of stuff like that and the size and speed of athletes now as well....

I saw a graph the other day on pitchers throwing 90 and over the other day. Have to see if I can find that....

[Maverick]

Here's the article I ran across which I just realize is outdated now. http://camdendepot.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-has-pitching-velocity-changed-in.html

This is a more up to date but both are still interesting.... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-velocity-surge-has-plateaued/

[The Federalist Engineer]

Baseball players are growing .... wonder if and how soft tissues (tendons and cartridge) scale up to match the weight and power of the modern game.

https://miro.medium.com/max/2872/1*8ctjcLQ4zmFO2r3C8gHsBg.png

https://www.psychguides.com/wp-content/uploads/asset-12-2.jpg

[Maverick]

Funny that follows the increase in velocity as well....