The next time you attend a Major League Baseball game and hear a sound that sounds like a clap, the better chance is that it’s the pitcher on the mound whose elbow just popped.
Blame not the pitch clock, but the pitch count. Once baseball people started to track, and emphasize, pitch counts it’s led pitchers down a road of power, money, and surgeries.
While the NFL invents rules to prevent injuries to its highest paid players, MLB cannot figure out a way to stop its best pitchers from injuring their elbows in the prime of their careers.