Ex-MLB Star Mo Vaughn Says Blame Analytics For Arm Injuries, Not Pitch Clock

Mo Vaughn says do not blame the pitch clock for the current rash of arm accidents across the MLB — he says the actual wrongdoer is none apart from … computer systems!!

The previous American League MVP made it clear to TMZ Sports activities this week he thinks it is analytics — not changes to timing pitchers — that is creating elbow woes.

He defined he thinks the obsession with velocity and spin charges has brought on pitchers to cease, , pitching … and focus solely on unloading the gasoline tank on each throw as an alternative.

“When you’re out there giving max effort every pitch,” he stated, “you are going to get hurt. That’s my philosophy behind it.”

Vaughn says years in the past — earlier than Sabermetrics and Statcast had a stranglehold on MLB execs — guys would simply cruise at decrease velos … earlier than ratcheting it up in huge moments once they wanted the explosive pitches.

Do not get it twisted, although, Vaughn says there’s positively a spot for analytics within the recreation .. it simply “can’t be end-all, be-all.”

In case you missed it … a bunch of studs have gone down with arm accidents in the previous few weeks — together with Gerrit Cole, Spencer Strider and Shane Bieber. Issues obtained so unhealthy, the MLB Gamers Affiliation truly got here out and stated it believed the league’s tinkering with the pitch clock was guilty.

However, like Vaughn, many of the guys weren’t able to go that far but … with Bieber saying simply this week he thinks he obtained damage for a variety of other reasons.

As for what Vaughn’s been as much as lately, the 56-year-old former first baseman advised us he is been working carefully together with his Vaughn Sports Academy and scouting service Perfect Game to try to assist the event of highschool baseball gamers throughout the nation.