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[ChosenOne21]

For chrissake people it was his lat. Not his shoulder, not his elbow, his lat. If that's really the cause, this has to be the first time in baseball history a pitcher was never the same because of a lat injury.

Sure, he looked rusty end of last year because he hadn't pitched in months, but he had the same spring training as everyone else this year and the results aren't there.

I don't claim to know exactly what it is, but it's time to put the lat injury to bed. That was almost a year ago

Edited June 4, 2023 by ChosenOne21

[Frobby]

2 minutes ago, ChosenOne21 said:

For chrissake people it was his lat. Not his shoulder, not his elbow, his lat. If that's really the cause, this has to be the first time in baseball history a pitcher was never the same because of a lat injury.

Sure, he looked rusty end of last year because he hadn't pitched in months, but he had the same spring training as everyone else this year and the results aren't there.

I don't claim to know exactly what it is, but it's time to put the lat injury to bed. That was almost a year ago

I don’t think it’s necessarily that simple.  Nobody is saying he can’t pitch well ever again because of the lat injury.  They’re saying that after the lat injury, he used different mechanics that are causing his command to suffer.  And under that theory, he hasn’t found his old mechanics since that injury, including during the winter and spring training.  It’s not that he can never find them again, but he simply hasn’t so far.  

I’m just reflecting the theory that’s being espoused, not endorsing it.  I suck at identifying mechanical differences that pitchers experience.
 

[tntoriole]

5 hours ago, ChosenOne21 said:

For chrissake people it was his lat. Not his shoulder, not his elbow, his lat. If that's really the cause, this has to be the first time in baseball history a pitcher was never the same because of a lat injury.

Sure, he looked rusty end of last year because he hadn't pitched in months, but he had the same spring training as everyone else this year and the results aren't there.

I don't claim to know exactly what it is, but it's time to put the lat injury to bed. That was almost a year ago

Pitching a baseball at the highest level requires the precision coordination of multiple muscle groups.  If an injury is healing or healed, pitchers can change their mechanics unconsciously and not repeat exactly every time.  
Then that new altered mechanics becomes what feels right and thus the ability to command the ball goes away just enough to not be as good.