Dr. Keith Meister cites the advent of the sweeper and power changeup for the uptick in pitching injuries, but others disagree.
One of the game’s leading orthopedic surgeons is sounding an alarm on pitching injuries — and citing the advent of the sweeper and power changeup as significant reasons for the spike. Dr. Keith Meister, the head team physician, said teams are exacerbating the problem by emphasizing pitchers’ performance over their availability. “These front offices, unfortunately, are living more in the moment than taking a longer, broader-term view,” Meister said. “There is a way to manage this.
The league has conducted approximately 100 interviews, its spokesperson said, from doctors and athletic trainers to independent researchers and college coaches to club executives and former pitchers. Once the study is complete, the league expects to form a task force. Not everyone in pitching research and coaching agrees with Meister’s belief that spin is more problematic than velocity. “A sweeper is just a curveball with a different grip,” one pitching coach pointed out, adding that .
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