Comments on: Throw the Perfect Fastball and Prevent Tommy John Surgery in Baseball https://www.athletico.com/2016/04/22/baseball-throw-perfect-fastball-prevent-tommy-john-surgery/ Better for every body. Thu, 01 May 2025 16:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Paul Kohler https://www.athletico.com/2016/04/22/baseball-throw-perfect-fastball-prevent-tommy-john-surgery/#comment-239358 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:45:47 +0000 http://www.athletico.com/?p=28199#comment-239358 In reply to Jason West.

Jason, I think you are absolutely right about the amount of time spent playing baseball and the number of pitches thrown in a game, tournament, and season. Good pitching mechanics can reduce a pitchers chance for injury, but they mean nothing if the player is forced to throw beyond his safe limits. Thanks for the comment. I hope you are a coach because you get it!

]]> By: Jason West https://www.athletico.com/2016/04/22/baseball-throw-perfect-fastball-prevent-tommy-john-surgery/#comment-239355 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:38:52 +0000 http://www.athletico.com/?p=28199#comment-239355 I think the injuries are more related to the fact that kids play 9 months or longer every year. Pitch counts are certainly a problem, our 13u team played a game just 2 weeks ago where their pitcher threw 156 pitches. And he threw hard. I also believe that
“Tommy John” is so popular that doctors are performing the surgery more often that they would have 10 years ago for same type of injury.
I guess in my opinion the way the ball is being thrown is not the problem

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