Pansies?

Says, in part:
"New York's teams do have the injury bug. The Yanks were tied with the Rangers for most players on the DL (nine) when April ended and the Mets were at seven. Still, the outbreak is not quarantined here. Teams had disabled 178 players (up significantly for the same period for a second straight year) and had lost 4,132 games through April. "

Am I idealizing the past, or did players not break down so much in the day? Or did the players that broke down not make it onto the more limited number of MLB teams? I remember pitchers burning up (I was at Memorial on the day Mark Fidrych remembers his arm going dead, never to return) but position players not so much. Is there a historical stats page where you can compare DL times over the years?

about 1 year ago 33 3 comments 0 recs |

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Today's Game

Get your pitcher out after six; baby the rookies; pitch counts; innings limits; blah blah blah.

And, I would say that there seems to be a lot more people on the DL than what there was in the past. I might be wrong, but I fully agree with this post. The complete game, which yahoo had a small article on, is a lost art because people don’t want to burn up their pitchers. But, if you let these kids throw more in the minors and condition them better, they will be able to throw more when they get to the majors. You see the kids now a days have maybe 120 innings in the minors. They get to the majors, and they are expected to throw 200 innings. They get tired because they aren’t used to it and are burned out or go on the DL for having “dead arm”. There’s a source of a bunch of DL’s right there.

by PWubbs on May 6, 2008 6:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Makes sense

but then if the kids are only throwing 120 down there, how do we get stories where they are having Tommy John before they even get to the show? Richard Stahl and some other early aughts O’s prospects come to mind.

...one more dying quail a week and you're playing in Yankee Stadium...

by 33 on May 6, 2008 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs