“The quality of the pitch, it's not like I could go into a game and just throw less quality pitches,” Ohtani said through his interpreter.
MINNEAPOLIS – As the sport has fixated on the state of its prized stars’ pitching elbows, ’s highest-paid star hypothesized that the sport’s overall emphasis on stuff and the implementation of a pitch clock last season could be behind the surge of injuries. ’s right elbow bears a familiar scar among those in the sport, undergoing Tommy John surgery after his rookie season in 2018 and another major elbow procedure last September.
” “The quality of the pitch, it’s not like I could go into a game and just throw less quality pitches,” Ohtani said through interpreter Will Ireton. While not Monday, the two-way star didn’t dismiss the potential factors of the pitch clock on pitcher injuries — something Major League Baseball pushed back on when the players’ union brought it up in a statement Saturday. “I’m sure there’s some added pressure just to the body in having to maintain a workload in less amount of time,” Ohtani said.
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