Comments on: Is Weight Lifting Causing Tommy John Surgery? https://baseball-news.com/is-weight-lifting-a-cause-of-tommy-john-surgery/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: J.R. Clark https://baseball-news.com/is-weight-lifting-a-cause-of-tommy-john-surgery/#comment-102477 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 00:17:33 +0000 https://baseball-news.com/?p=6123#comment-102477 1. Coaches and baseball people place way too much value on the 90+ mph pitcher. I would rather have a kid with an 80mph fastball who is willing to learn to change speed and develop an array of pitches. Unfortunately, college and pro baseball people won’t look at any young kid who throws 80 mph regardless of his win-loss record, ERA, or stats.

2. Weight training is bad for pitchers, period. The article is right, there is definitely a correlation between the multitude of injuries to pitchers and the rise of weight training in baseball.

]]> By: Mike Castleman https://baseball-news.com/is-weight-lifting-a-cause-of-tommy-john-surgery/#comment-101797 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:39:08 +0000 https://baseball-news.com/?p=6123#comment-101797 I’m going to hypothesize that it’s not the presence of too much weight training but the imbalance of “strength” training combined with the explosion in higher velocity training at younger ages where growth plate development is still progressing and the massive expansion of club/travel ball (we’ll call this one mileage)

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