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Saturday was a brutal day if you appreciate elite MLB pitching, and the league and union are now arguing over if the pitch clock was to blame.
The Cleveland Guardians opened the day by announcing former Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber will undergo Tommy John surgery, ending his season. Hours later, Atlanta Braves ace Spencer Strider was announced to also have damage in his UCL, though the team is pursuing a second opinion on a surgery.
Those are only the latest pitcher injuries to hit baseball this year, as Gerrit Cole, Eury Perez, Lucas Giolito and more have all been sidelined by varying degrees. The pitching landscape is so bad that only two former Cy Young Award winners - Corbin Burnes and Blake Snell - were on an active MLB roster as of Saturday.
MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark believes MLB's new pitch clock and the modifications it made for this season are to blame.
STATEMENT:
"Despite unanimous Player opposition and significant concerns regarding health and safety, the Commissioner's Office reduced the length of the Pitch Clock last December, just one season removed from imposing the most significant rule change in decades.
Since then, our concerns about the health impacts of reduced recovery time have only intensified.
The league's unwillingness thus far to acknowledge or study the effects of these profound changes is an unprecedented threat to our game and its most valuable asset - the Players."
Read More: sports.yahoo.com/mlb-and-play...
Chapters:
0:00 We knew elbow injuries were INCREASING
2:06 Velocity vs Spin
3:00 Recent MLB pitching injuries
4:05 MLBPA's statement
4:51 MLB's response
6:01 Takeaways
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