Quote Originally Posted by Commercecomet24 View Post
You're right, it's nothing our staff is doing. It's the increase in velo training and a lot of year around baseball that's contributing to this. The human body was only meant to throw a ball so hard. I believe Dr Andrews says 91-92 is about max, after that most arms are on borrowed time. With the increase in velo training and kids throwing harder at younger ages and playing more often,it's not really a matter of if but when. Its why the stigma of Tommy John has really declined over the years. It's just pretty much expected to happen now. Our staff does as good a job as any at trying to protect our pitchers but remember they're inheriting a lot of miles already on these arms.
This exactly, Andrews is not the only one saying that. Fletcher back in the 60s was talking about guys throwing over 88 mph should be put on a 80 pitch count per week due to overworking, wait for it, the elbow.

Just hope the kid in TN throwing 104 has a good off the mound work around, because he has already had repair work done. His mechanics look sound though but if he starts throwing sliders or anything with a negative axis on his elbow he will have some more surgeries in his future. The human body is not designed to throw a baseball with counter rotation.