DrFrankJobe

I think it made sense for them to shut him down at that point. In hindsight it might have made sense to shut him down earlier in the year so that he could have pitched in the playoffs, but that's hindsight. I'm very proud of them for putting the health and career of the player ahead of the game.

And Go Blue!

Really don't like it. Terrible idea.

The Dodgers of course. I can pick a few: Drysdale, Koufax, Hershiser, Tommy John...I can't pick just one.

That's a multiple answer type of question. In a lot of cases, they didn't. Luck and genetics had a lot more to do with it.

As for now, pitchers are throwing a lot harder than they used to, and one of the reasons I think is that, now, pitchers always have in the back of their mind "oh I can get an operation", while in the old days you always had to think about preservation. In the old days they did a lot of throwing but not necessarily throwing hard - the idea was to have a lot of different pitches.

Not at all. I like it.