Another Look at Potential #6 overall pick, Tyler Matzek

From Trip Somers of Texasleaguers.com

5 months ago baetown415 5 comments 0 recs |

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“Matzek may be using his latissimus dorsi to internally rotate his arm instead of using his pectoralis major to horizontally flex his arm.”

Oh shut up; you had me at “Matzek.”

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by Lyle on Jun 5, 2009 5:54 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The thing is, no one actually knows what that means for injuries (including Dr. Marshall or the article author). They sure talk like they do, but they don’t, and they have no evidence otherwise. Violent deliveries, odd mechanics, and any of those doctor words don’t predict pitcher injuries. Probably the most important thing to avoid injuries is a repeatable delivery, but even that is speculation.

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by marcello on Jun 6, 2009 12:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Don't confuse injury prevention with injury prediction.

Any sports orthopaedist or physical therapist can tell you about what body actions lead to injuries.

They can tell you these things because there’s an unbelievable amount of evidence to support them despite your claim that “they have no evidence.” Countless anatomical, kinesiological, and biomechanical studies have proven these things to be true. Most of them simply reinforce what is obvious from reading an applied anatomy textbook.

The American Journal of Medicine is a good place to look. You can even get some good information from ASMI’s website, but nothing beats going to a library and actually reading these studies. I guess it’s easier to pretend the stuff doesn’t exist, though.

A delivery’s repeatability does nothing to prevent or to cause injury.

Draft Prospect: Tyler Matzek, LHP, Capistrano Valley HS - TexasLeaguers.com

by NoNameOnCard on Jun 7, 2009 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs