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Originally Posted by jbergey22
I have a hard time putting all the blame on overusage at younger ages because that has been going on for years(probably less now). 20-30 years ago I dont know that coaches had the slightest concern about pitch counts and usage of their younger pitchers at least now whether they follow pitch counts or not they are aware of potential issues harming the pitcher.
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I would say it goes on more now - and the reason is that kids now are really pressured to specialize into baseball and play nothing but baseball year round but 20-30 years ago they might have been playing 3 sports. So yeah, back then they didn't really care about pitch counts but I guess it compares to now kids throwing 2-3 times as much. Of course you wouldn't put all the blame on it even so.