injury risk pitchers for this year

These guys have crunched some numbers and determined several criteria to help identify pitchers at risk for injury. Nothing is really groundbreaking, but I did find it interesting that their study showed the strongest correlation of injury risk to percentage of breaking pitches thrown. Anything over 25-27% seems to be a big red flag.

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I wonder if they need a feldman/looper

exception?

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by Goyogringo on Feb 5, 2009 9:37 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Hmn

Suprised to see Greinke on there. They sure seem convinced Ricky Nolasco is an injury waiting to happen.

Interesting that Ben Sheets was one of the risks they felt good about taking (until now anyway).

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by lonestarJon on Feb 6, 2009 1:54 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Curves/Sliders

I thought there was a pretty notable difference in the injury risk from throwing sliders to throwing curveballs. Shouldn’t they be 2 different categories?

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by Gdawg on Feb 6, 2009 9:43 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

the study is based on statistics

the methodology is here.

those guys look to have a pretty cool blog for fantasy purposes. quite a bit of good info there that you won’t find in more mainstream sites. I like it, anyway.

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by tricer on Feb 6, 2009 10:38 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

What I'm wondering though

is there a difference between pitchers throwing a lot of sliders vs. pitchers throwing a lot of curveballs. I did skim that article looking for where they were talking about the slider/curveball part of their analysis, but it looks like they just grouped both pitches in one category. I’ve always read that curveballs are safer on the arm than a slider which is why I think its strange that they grouped both pitches together.

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by Gdawg on Feb 6, 2009 11:21 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs