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Originally Posted by BWillie007
Don't you think that it's possible that he would have hurt himself anyway? Why is it always that if a pitcher pitches high pitch counts that it was that reason? You are either injury prone or not, I don't think it has alot to do with pitch counts as much as ppl lead you to believe.
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I guess it's possible... but the Royals let him throw 130+ pitches one night. Then it all went downhill. There's a pretty clear trail of evidence. He got clobbered a few times. The Royals even suggested the guy had dead arm, and yet they let him go back out there for 115-120 pitches a game a couple more times. He was never the same after that. And then when he got clobbered over and over to start the next year, they still let him throw a ton of pitches. There was one night where he threw 128 pitches. Hillman ran him straight into the ground.