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Pitchers are the lifeblood of the sport, the ones who win championships, but today they face an epidemic unlike any baseball has seen. Excellent analysis of the biggest mystery in baseball--namely, how to keep pitchers from blowing out their arms. Learn how to win more bets, and maybe learn a few things about life along the way. Brilliant , well researched book . In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I came out knowing way more about the state of our understanding, but ultimately knowing more about what we really do not understand. Jeff Passan digs deeply into the question of why pitchers' arms fail them so often. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. He exposes how the baseball establishment long ignored the rise in arm injuries and reveals how misplaced incentives across the sport stifle potential changes. Please see your welcome email for exclusions and details. It's also a shifting game. It is a well written view with lots of insight.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2018. Passan never makes the determination. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
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Passan looks at Japan, at youth travel ball, at elite training centers, at individual players, and at MLB. This book helps understand this context. Jeff Passan traveled the world for three years to explore in-depth the past, present, and future of the arm, and how its evolution left baseball struggling to wrangle its Tommy John surgery epidemic. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. My son plays in a few PG events a year and if we allowed him to be over-used or exploited that's on us, not the company that sponsors events. Jeffrey Scott Passan (born September 21, 1980) is an American baseball columnist with ESPN (since January 2019), after a 13-year stint with Yahoo Sports, and author of New York Times Best Seller The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports. Jeff Passan traveled the world for three years to explore in-depth the past, present, and future of the arm, and how its evolution left baseball struggling to wrangle its Tommy John surgery epidemic. A book that is very important in today's game. From a super-detailed description of what Tommy John surgery entails to the history of the procedure to the rehab process to what causes arm injuries to what the future looks like, it's a fantastic multi-perspective view. Learn more about the program. If you follow baseball closely enough to know who has had Tommy John, this is for you. Save an extra 10% on almost everything & enjoy free shipping every day.
By using our website you agree to our use of cookies. Jeff Passan. Yahoo’s lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports—the pitching arm—and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Prices may vary in store. If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you grow your business. Please try again. The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports. Jump to navigation Jump to search. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Please try again.
He exposed the broken youth system that spits out more injured pitchers than ever. † Conditions apply. He examined what compelled the Chicago Cubs to spend $155 million on one arm. Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016. Are Perfect Game pitcher/participants any medically worse off than non-participants? The Book Depository Ltd.UK. Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2018. Significant research. Jeff Passan is a serious Sports Writer. One tiny ligament in the elbow keeps snapping and sending teenagers and major leaguers alike to undergo surgery, an issue the baseball establishment ignored for decades.
It is informative, entertaining, honest and extremely well written. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter. Click here for the lowest price. Every college sport picks its champion by a postseason tournament, except for one:…. Relentless Optimism: How a Commitment to Positive Thinking Changes Everything (Spor... To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Harper Paperbacks; Reprint Edition (April 4, 2017). I devoured this book. Time for MLB. Couldn’t put it down . Please try again","bd_saving_percent_off":"{0}%
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Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Excellent analysis of the biggest mystery in baseball--namely, Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2016. My only issue was the way Perfect Game baseball was portrayed - parents and over-zealous coaches are the issue, not tournament organizers in my opinion. Previous page of related Sponsored Products. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team [Includes a New Afterword], The Shift: The Next Evolution in Baseball Thinking, Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution, Winning Ugly: A Visual History of Baseball's Most Unique Uniforms, Inside the Pocket: An In Depth Analysis of the Xs & Os.
I own almost 100 baseball books and some times I wonder if there is anything left that will surprise me and that I will really get into while reading well this book is just that book!! Pitchers are the game’s lifeblood. Very well written. The best baseball book of the year… Jeff Passan spent several years in clubhouses and operating rooms to report The Arm. Passan discovered a culture that struggles to prevent arm injuries and lacks the support for the changes necessary to do so. Please see your welcome email for exclusions and details.
Injuries to the UCL start as early as Little League. Without a drastic cultural shift, baseball will continue to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually to damaged pitchers, and another generation of children will suffer the same problems that vex current players. If you are interest in baseball you need to read this book ! Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Jeff Passan books online. All tendons are equal (and liable to failure) under the lord, regardless of star power. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. My own view is that we're not on the cusp of figuring out how to prevent or even substantially reduce pitching injuries, and the game's evolution toward more strikeouts, more home runs, and harder-throwing pitchers is an important part of the context needed to understand this problem. Passan has proven his bon fides with this book. Sold by Warehouse_Department and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. I highly recommend the book though. And he tackled a question that is troubling baseball at every level, the increasing number of pitchers' arm injuries, so it was worth attempting. Next, I'd like to learn about potential solutions to the problem. Designated Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story, Facing Mariano Rivera: Players Recall the Greatest Relief Pitcher Who Ever Lived. © 2020 I have my son do core exercises and he is beginning to use cables to strengthen his arm and shoulder area. Always interesting to get behind the scenes in the rehab process. Passan went to Japan to understand how another baseball-obsessed nation deals with this crisis. It's a thinking game.
One tiny band of tissue in the elbow, the ulnar collateral ligament, is snapping at unprecedented rates, leaving current big league players vulnerable and the coming generation of baseball-playing children dreading the three scariest words in the sport: Tommy John surgery. He examined what compelled the Chicago Cubs to spend $155 million on one arm. I closely monitor my son's arm use. Outstanding read if you like the game of baseball. Perfect Game and the ways that very young kids are throwing too hard and too often ends up in the indictment of organized professional baseball. Discount prices on books by Jeff Passan, including titles like The Shift. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. An amazing true story, Kurt shares his poignant recollections as a chronic juvenile delinquent and how he overcame the odds to become a sports agent. Behind in the Count: My Journey from Juvenile Delinquent to Baseball Agent, “A timely and comprehensive look at all aspects of a baseball problem that in recent years appears to approach a crisis.” (. Jeff Passan traveled the world for three years to explore in-depth the past, present, and future of the arm, and how its evolution left baseball struggling to wrangle its Tommy John surgery epidemic. Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2016. He examined what compelled the Chicago Cubs to spend $155 million on one arm. Does Japan -- for all its crazy emphasis on working pitchers arms -- have a better or worse arm injury rate than the United States? Offer valid for new subscribers only. So, the book is an interesting survey of the problem, but it doesn't make the effort to draw much in the way of useful conclusions. Every year, Major League Baseball spends upward of $2 billion on pitchers—five times the salary of all NFL quarterbacks combined. The tug of war between safety and money and draftability is nearly impossible to reconcile.
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