Saving the Pitcher: Preventing Pitcher Injuries in Modern Baseball

by Will Carroll

A revolutionary analysis of pitching injuries and how to prevent them, addressing all aspects of pitcher injuries, workload, mechanics, abuse, and, most important, injury prevention. Information from doctors, trainers, coaches, pitchers, biomechanical experts, and researchers make this the first complete book on pitcher health. Saving the Pitcher is a must read for anyone who wants solidly researched data from an impartial baseball thinker....It is the right book, by the right guy, for the right reason, at the right time. ―Dr. Tom House, National Pitching Association.

Genres: Baseball, Sports

212 pages, Hardcover

First published April 20, 2004

Reviews

[Skip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Any pitcher, anyone teaching a person person to pitch, who is interested in that pitcher being healthy and remaining healthy, must read this book, and must learn the lessons in this book, and use those lessons well.

[Rodger Payne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Carroll's other book on steroids is a better read. The statistical sections here are basically reviews of well-known techniques (at least in SABR "stat-head" circles) and I was not grabbed by the technical chapters on pitching mechanics and training.