Author Topic: Terrible idea to start Strasburg Opening Day  (Read 4510 times)

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Offline Kevrock

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Re: Terrible idea to start Strasburg Opening Day
« Reply #25: March 23, 2012, 03:50:24 PM »
There's several thing wrong with that second article, but I don't have much time right now.

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Arm lag and improper sequencing were likely to blame for Strasburg's UCL tear, as well as for those of almost everyone else knocked out by the injury. "The timing is subtle," says the American Sports Medicine Institute's Glenn Fleisig, who has analyzed more than 2,000 pitchers and is one of the world's foremost authorities on pitching biomechanics. "It's the difference between good and great and healthy and injury-waiting-to-happen."

Is Fleisig talking specifically about Strasburg or about timing in general? He doesn't name Strasburg. Did he analyse Strasburg on his own time? ASMI doesn't reveal analysis results from clients. Perplexing quote.

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -- multiple biomechanics experts interviewed for this story

Huh. Most of the experts she names in the article don't address Strasburg specifically. It's kind of a hodgepodge of theories about pitching without getting too specific and without any of the experts speaking specifically about Stras.