Pomerantz is Back! (On the 60-day IL)

[junior]

Next year.

Surgery scheduled for Wednesday. One step forward, two steps back.

[aardvark]

Do the Padres have the most guys on the 60 day DL?

[aztecryan]

Aug 14, 2021 19:20:39 GMT -8 aardvark said:

Do the Padres have the most guys on the 60 day DL?

Yes. When you think about what this team has had to replace for various stretches (some of them season-long) : Clevinger, Lamet, Paddack, Tatis (multiple times), Nola, Grisham, Pomeranz (multiple times), Morejon, Snell, Kela, Strahm and the list goes on. It's staggering.

[aztecmusician]

Well, whatever the Padres coaches and trainers are doing for their pitchers, it’s CLEARLY IS NOT WORKING in terms of keeping arms healthy and injury free. Didn’t the Padres have the same issue last year? After basically half a season they ran out of healthy arms in the playoffs. It’s getting to be a butcher shop at Petco Park as young arm after fragile young arm pitches 25 innings and……pop goes the elbow. I mean, does this team inject flesh eating bacteria into the arms of their pitchers before each series? Every pitcher who goes through this system wrecks their arm to the point where everyone ends up requiring surgical procedures.

This has been happening since MLB changed the strike zone in 1996. The question which baseball should be asking is how did pitchers in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s throw 200-300 innings per year for a decade and not destroy their arms? Can’t baseball just readjust the game back to when pitchers didn’t have to break their arms off trying to get 95+ fastballs?

Ditch the hard throwers and bring back Dave McNally, Vida Blue and Steve Carlton like starters, guys who epitomized the art of pitching.

[johneaztec]

Aug 15, 2021 5:21:56 GMT -8 aztecmusician said:

Well, whatever the Padres coaches and trainers are doing for their pitchers, it’s CLEARLY IS NOT WORKING in terms of keeping arms healthy and injury free. Didn’t the Padres have the same issue last year? After basically half a season they ran out of healthy arms in the playoffs. It’s getting to be a butcher shop at Petco Park as young arm after fragile young arm pitches 25 innings and……pop goes the elbow. I mean, does this team inject flesh eating bacteria into the arms of their pitchers before each series? Every pitcher who goes through this system wrecks their arm to the point where everyone ends up requiring surgical procedures.

This has been happening since MLB changed the strike zone in 1996. The question which baseball should be asking is how did pitchers in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s throw 200-300 innings per year for a decade and not destroy their arms? Can’t baseball just readjust the game back to when pitchers didn’t have to break their arms off trying to get 95+ fastballs?

Ditch the hard throwers and bring back Dave McNally, Vida Blue and Steve Carlton like starters, guys who epitomized the art of pitching.

Talk about the art of pitching. Don't forger San Diego's own Cy Young winner, Randy Jones. The guy threw around 85 mph and routinely went deep into games, or completed the game. He frustrated the heck out of hitters.

[junior]

Aug 15, 2021 6:34:53 GMT -8 johneaztec said:

Aug 15, 2021 5:21:56 GMT -8 aztecmusician said:

Well, whatever the Padres coaches and trainers are doing for their pitchers, it’s CLEARLY IS NOT WORKING in terms of keeping arms healthy and injury free. Didn’t the Padres have the same issue last year? After basically half a season they ran out of healthy arms in the playoffs. It’s getting to be a butcher shop at Petco Park as young arm after fragile young arm pitches 25 innings and……pop goes the elbow. I mean, does this team inject flesh eating bacteria into the arms of their pitchers before each series? Every pitcher who goes through this system wrecks their arm to the point where everyone ends up requiring surgical procedures.

This has been happening since MLB changed the strike zone in 1996. The question which baseball should be asking is how did pitchers in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s throw 200-300 innings per year for a decade and not destroy their arms? Can’t baseball just readjust the game back to when pitchers didn’t have to break their arms off trying to get 95+ fastballs?

Ditch the hard throwers and bring back Dave McNally, Vida Blue and Steve Carlton like starters, guys who epitomized the art of pitching.

Talk about the art of pitching. Don't forger San Diego's own Cy Young winner, Randy Jones. The guy threw around 85 mph and routinely went deep into games, or completed the game. He frustrated the heck out of hitters.

…and often did it in less than 2 hours!