Dr. James Andrews on the increase in injuries in pitchers in recent years:
"I started following the injury patterns and injury rates in the year 2000", Andrews says. "Back in those days, I did about eight or nine Tommy Johns per year in high school aged and younger. The large majority of Tommy Johns were at the Major League level, tiene the Minor League level, tiene the college level and then just a handful or high school kids.
"In today's situation, the whole thing is flip-flopped. The largest number is youth baseball. They've surpassed what's being done in the Major Leagues. That's a terrible situation."
Andrews says the obsession with velocity and spin at the youth level is having a devastating impact on arms and the game itself.
"These kids are throwing 90 mph their junior year of high school", he says. "The ligament itself can't withstand that kind of force. We've learned in our research lab that baseball is a development sport. The Tommy John ligament matures at about age 26. In high school, the red line where the forces go beyond the tensile properties of the ligament is about 80 mph".
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Scene this week:
Michigan: "We're fighting the suspension, so unfair!"
Harbaugh: "I'm testifying! It's going to be like 'A Few Good Men'!"
NCAA: "Michigan, we found out some things."
Michigan lawyers: "Um, we have some issues."
Michigan/Harbaugh: "We'll take the suspension!"
Fin.
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The parents of two children who died by AR-15 gunfire consented to having The Post visually reconstruct what the bullets did to their bodies.
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