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[cajun4life]

He threw 62 pitches. He entered the game with 0 outs, runners on 2nd and 3rd, against the 6 team in the nation, and his team clinging to a 1 run lead. Seems like a reach to characterize that as “low stress.”

Low stress means he didn’t put himself in any high leverage counts. He was cruising and dialed in.

[Turbine]

If there were no stress pitches would he be injured?

[ManAboutTown]

He threw 62 pitches. He entered the game with 0 outs, runners on 2nd and 3rd, against the 6 team in the nation, and his team clinging to a 1 run lead. Seems like a reach to characterize that as “low stress.”

Against a top 10 offense in America. All of those pitches were stress pitches.

[sportsfanatic21]

The thing is, had he not injured himself on his final pitch last night, there’s a pretty good chance it was gonna happen soon. May have been the first pitch he threw in his next bullpen session. Who knows?

Injuries happen. If anyone knew exactly when they were going to, there would be a lot less of them.

Hopefully it’s not as serious as it looked. And if it is, here’s to a speedy and successful recovery.

The kid deserves a ton of credit for an epic performance last night. Blaming anyone for his injury on his 62nd pitch of the night is just looking for a reason to be mad about something.

[tank]

Nicely put sportsfanatic21

[CajunVic]

He got through the first three innings in 45 pitches which is a good pitch count under any circumstances for three innings of work.

He got out the the 4th inning with 5 pitches

Again, he was dealing and in a low pitch count for 4 innings pitched.

He got out of the 5th inning with 12 pitches which put him at a 12.4 pitch per inning for the outing

Under these circumstances I believe one would be hard pressed to find a coach that was going to be pulling him before 5 innings of work.

JMO

[CockyCajun]

He got through the first three innings in 45 pitches which is a good pitch count under any circumstances for three innings of work.

He got out the the 4th inning with 5 pitches

Again, he was dealing and in a low pitch count for 4 innings pitched.

He got out of the 5th inning with 12 pitches which put him at a 12.4 pitch per inning for the outing

Under these circumstances I believe one would be hard pressed to find a coach that was going to be pulling him before 5 innings of work.

JMO

You're opinion would be valid 99.9% of the time but we have a different dynamic at play. A medical staff, a coaching staff and player that focused solely on his back rehab and didn't give his arm the 100% focus a healthy player would normally give it. Small numbers mean nothing if you aren't physically ready. His arm wasn't ready.

[sportsfanatic21]

You're opinion would be valid 99.9% of the time but we have a different dynamic at play. A medical staff, a coaching staff and player that focused solely on his back rehab and didn't give his arm the 100% focus a healthy player would normally give it. Small numbers mean nothing if you aren't physically ready. His arm wasn't ready.

Well then that’s on the medical staff.

He’s either ready to play or he’s not. They don’t release guys to play, but only a little.

And do we know that his back hasn’t been better for a couple weeks while they were readying the arm for action??

Injuries happen. One did last night. That’s it.

[CockyCajun]

Well then that’s on the medical staff.

He’s either ready to play or he’s not. They don’t release guys to play, but only a little.

And do we know that his back hasn’t been better for a couple weeks while they were readying the arm for action??

Injuries happen. One did last night. That’s it.

Two weeks is all you need to get an arm ready. LOL no wonder there are so many arm injuries.

[sportsfanatic21]

Two weeks is all you need to get an arm ready. LOL no wonder there are so many arm injuries.

That’s making an assumption that he was unable to throw at all prior to that.

What’s done is done. I’ll step away from this conversation