An interesting story at the New York Times about the research into injuries to pitchers who throw hard:
Fleisig, a biomedical engineer, knows what an arm can handle, and years of research give him the confidence to answer one of baseball’s more intriguing questions: Is there a limit to how fast a human being can throw?
His answer: Yes, there is.
And, he adds: That limit already has been reached.
Physics, man. It’s like, such a bummer sometimes.
Thing is, guys will still go crazy over the gun readings because even if you risk a Matt Harvey/Stephen Strasburg injury situation to your young fireballer, you always could get lucky and get a Nolan Ryan. In other words: there will always be freaks who get hurt a lot and there will, maybe less occasionally, be exceptions too.
