I truly hope you won’t ask me at whom this rant is aimed, because I have no idea. Undoubtedly, teams don’t want their pitchers to get hurt, pitchers don’t want to get hurt, training staffs are doing everything they can to keep pitchers healthy. Nonetheless, allow me to vent because jumping across the internet and through my computer to stop me is probably not an option.
I get it: pitching is really bad for you. “Ask your doctor if pitching a baseball is right for you.” “No, son, it isn’t.” Still, seemingly every season starts the same way now: A team is assembled, fans strive to get excited about the squad that has been built, and then a bunch of other people take the mound.