Saving the Pitcher
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566637287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
(Keith Law, Toronto Blue Jays)In this illuminating study, Will Carroll is able to deconstruct the complexities of pitchingand pitching injuriesand explain them to the average fan. Whether you are a youth baseball coach, a college pitcher, a general manager for a Major League Baseball team, or anyone else who loves baseball, this is a book you will enjoy reading. Will nails it in this book, as he always does. (Steven Goldman, author of The Pinstriped Bible and Forging Genius: The Making of Casey Stengel)Innovative and useful. (Jamey Newberg, The Newberg Minor League Report)It's a very interesting book. It is a must-read for all coaches and parents of anyone involved with Little League or higher baseball
Can young arms be saved from the torture and abuse subjected on them by the lords of baseball? The answer is yes. The most dangerous thing in baseball is a pitcher with potential. We are losing pitchers far too young, far too early, and it can be prevented. More than half of all starting pitchers will end up on the Disabled List and over the last three seasons, more than two hundred pitchers at all levels of professional baseball have undergone ligament replacement surgery that has cost them more than a year of an already finite resource, their baseball career. Teams are losing on their ledgers as they pay out ever increasing salaries to pitchers that are unable to perform and overpaying those pitchers that do somehow remain healthy. Teams are losing on the field because of an inability to keep their own pitchers healthy. These injuries don't have to happen. In baseball, there is a new orthodoxy that "there is no such thing as a pitching prospect." Too many young flamethrowers simply burn out, then fade away, their potential never reached and their team never seeing any gain from their sizeable investments of time and money. Knowledge from doctors, trainers, coaches, pitchers, biomechanists, and researchers make this book the first complete look at pitcher health. From major leaguers to little leaguers, this book is a must read for pitchers, parents, and baseball fans everywhere.. <
He lives in Indianapolis. Carroll has published an authoritative work about steriods in baseball, The Juice, published by Ivan R. . Since the publication of Saving the Pitcher, Mr. Dee in 2005. Will Carroll writes for Baseball Prospectus and was one of the first writers to break the news that Pete Rose will return to baseball
"The first of its kind" according to Anthony Passaretti. Anyone who has read Will Carroll's work for Baseball Prospectus or even his weblog has learned more about injuries from him than from every baseball broadcast combined. Unfortunately, he is baseball's only "medhead" so it will take some time to spread the knowledge. Writing a book is the first step."Saving. Informative and Well-Researched In clear language, Saving The Pitcher explains the biggest issues relating to a pitcher's health, and the combined efforts required of a team's training staff, physician, pitching coach, manager, and the pitcher himself to save the pitcher from injury. Will Carroll systematically goes through the pitching . "Interesting, Important if Technical read on Pitching" according to Adam Strasberg. I have to say I found this book griping. It was well written and as odd as this might sound, I found it hard to put down.Will Carroll while not a medical professional is the top writer in the field of baseball injuries, writing both for "Under the Knife" for Baseball Prospectus website and his own blog The