Marlins Jose Fernandez needs season ending surgery

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seriously though nowadays its a given that a pitcher will go through tommy john surgery. are pitchers doing something different than back in the days? cause those pitchers in the 50's and 60's were pitching nearly everyday and into high counts.

something is fishy brehs
 

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seriously though nowadays its a given that a pitcher will go through tommy john surgery. are pitchers doing something different than back in the days? cause those pitchers in the 50's and 60's were pitching nearly everyday and into high counts.

something is fishy brehs

they werent babied, and built arm strength

now pitchers are on pitching counts early on , highschool, college, minors etc.

innings pitched and pitch counts were :ehh:

now a dude hits 100 pitches and hes being taken out
 
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they werent babied, and built arm strength

now pitchers are on pitching counts early on , highschool, college, minors etc.

innings pitched and pitch counts were :ehh:

now a dude hits 100 pitches and hes being taken out

sooner or later they gotta change philosophy. you got some pitchers having to get a 2nd tommy john like kyle drabek
 

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This fukked up how do the bum pitchers throw 180 innings with 4.5 eras and bee good
 

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So Dusty Bakers gets sent for cuz he destroys pitchers' arms but now pitchers are being too babied. Which is it brehs :youngsabo:
 
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