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u/Notreallysureatall · 3 pointsr/baseball

You are correct -- A Lefty's Legacy is a great biography, and it covered this issue extensively. Apparently Koufax's arm is curved slightly because of his pitching motion. He retired early because he was worried about his health.

EDIT - I just want to highly recommend A Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy. One interesting tidbit is that Koufax initially declined to help Leavy with a biography, so the project died. Several months (years?) later, Leavy was stranded at an airport. The only person she knew in that city was Koufax because of their prior brief conversation. She called and asked him for a ride from the airport, and he did it. Apparently they got along well, and he ended up helping with the biography.

u/cgiall420 · 1 pointr/redsox

Also, it's not like Sandy just slipped getting out of the shower one day and injured himself--this fantastic book details all the trouble he went through in the years leading up to his retirement. Amazing to think what he could have done if he were really healthy.

u/on_the_fly_82 · 1 pointr/baseball

Don't know if you read this one but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

u/Suckerbet516 · 0 pointsr/NewYorkMets

>Absolutely it could have been a lot of things, but one thing we know for sure is that hardly anybody ever pitched 275 IP in a season without getting hurt.

That's completely untrue. Of the top 50 career innings pitched leaders of all-time only three had documented arm trouble. Three.

In the early 20th century pitchers used to pitch as many as 400 innings and more in a season and many of them like Cy Young, Grover Alexander, and Walter Johnson pitched effectively for over 20 years.

There are maybe 1 in 5 season innings pitched leaders that developed arm problems. For every Don Drysdale there are 5 Greg Maddox's and Steve Carltons. I don't know where you get most from. It's not even close.



And I don't know where you got your list of injured pitchers, but it's shaky at best. I think whoever wrote the article you pulled that from is suspect.

Sandy Koufax developed arthritis because of the torque he placed on his elbow when he threw his curveball. He said so himself. You can read it in his biography.

http://www.amazon.com/Sandy-Koufax-A-Leftys-Legacy/dp/0061779008

Jim Palmer recovered from an early arm problem to win 300 games and 3 Cy Youngs. He never had arm surgery and pitched all those innings after his bout with biceps tendonitis.

Juan Marichal developed Arthritis as a result of being injected with Penicillin in 1970, which he was allergic to. That's the documented reason for his arm problems.

Johnny Sain never pitched 200 innings after 1950 because he was converted to a reliever. His one documented arm injury was being hit on the hand with a line drive that effected his pitching after. He did have a bad year in '49 but I can't find any documentation that says he had a shoulder injury that year.

That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure there's more discrepancies but that's more than enough to prove my point.


Once again I catch you making shit up and stating facts not in evidence, or, at best, using misinformation. When will you ever learn?

Edit- And 1 more thing. Gooden didn't throw an unconscionable amount of pitches in the minors at a young age. He threw 140 IP's in '82. 191 IP in 83. Not unconscionable by any means.