MLB unveils “Pitch Smart”: a guide to help youth baseball players avoid injury

Major League Baseball today unveiled the first step in an initiative aimed at reducing pitcher injuries. It’s called “Pitch Smart” and it’s designed to educate youth players, parents and coaches about how to better avoid arm injuries. This is important because, as Dr. James Andrews noted last spring when a rash of Tommy John surgeries hit Major League Baseball, the cake on arm injuries is often baked back when the pitcher is young, not when he is already a professional.

The website sets forth best practices, guidelines and identifies risk factors for young baseball players. Stuff like this:



Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/11/12/mlb-unveils-pitch-smart-a-guide-to-help-youth-baseball-players-avoid-injury/