MLB Players Association executive Tony Clark put the blame on the pitch clock for the reason why some of the league's top pitchers have suffered elbow injuries.
Major League Baseball’s two top pitching stars – the Cleveland Guardians’ Shane Bieber and the Atlanta Braves’ Spencer Strider – were among those who suffered elbow injuries within the first few days of the season. Not to mention, the New York Yankees’ Jonathan Loaisiga, the Miami Marlins’ Eury Perez and the Oakland Athletics’ Trevor Gott also suffered elbow injuries. Gerrit Cole was forced to miss the first few months of the season with an elbow problem as well.
Tony Clark, executive director of the MLB Players Association, put the onus on the pitch clock. '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,' Clark said in a statement. 'Since then, our concerns about the health impacts of reduced recovery time have only intensified.
cited analysis by Johns Hopkins in its response to the MLBPA. It said the researchers 'found no evidence to support that the introduction of the pitch clock has increased injuries' and 'no evidence that pitchers who worked quickly... or sped up their pace were more likely to sustain an injury than those who did not.
hoped it would help shorten games and it did. A nine-inning game’s average time dropped to 2 hours and 40 minutes – a 24-minute decrease. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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