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- Are teams figuring out how to limit arm injuries to their best young pitchers? The Dodgers' management of Walker Buehler will help us understand.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Major league teams are doing a better job protecting young pitchers’ health. We know this because young pitchers (like all pitchers) are throwing fewer innings, because advanced data is better at detecting fatigue, because Tommy John surgeries for major league pitchers are declining, and because my annual report on overworked pitchers hit an all-time low this year in the two decades I’ve been tracking them: one.