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Chris O'Leary's 2016
Pitcher Injury Predictions

This page lists some of the predictions I made during 2016. For a list of all of my pitcher injury predictions, see...

2016 Predictions

I have made a number of predictions about pitchers that have sadly come true, some during 2016 and some earlier. Most of these pitchers' problems can be traced back to one of two flaws...

...which are problematic because they tend to create a problem with pitchers' Timing.

Index

Alvarez, Henderson
Appel, Mark
Arroyo, Bronson
Bassitt, Chris
Cashner, Andrew
Cole, Gerrit
Darvish, Yu
Foltynewicz, Mike
Gonzales, Marco
Harvey, Matt
Heaney, Andrew
Holland, Derek
Hughes, Phil
Kaprielian, James
Kelly, Joe
Manaea, Sean
Matuella, Michael
Matz, Steven
Parker, Jarrod
Richards, Garrett
Ross, Tyson
Severino, Luis
Smith, Carson
Strasburg, Stephen  
Syndergaard, Noah 
Velasquez, Vincent
Winkler, Daniel
Wood, Alex

Predictions

The following are predictions that came true in 2016. Note that all are independently time-stamped, generally via Twitter.

Alvarez, Henderson

Appel, Mark

Arroyo, Bronson

I have updated my piece on Hyperabduction to discuss Bronson Arroyo's problems.

Bassitt, Chris

Cashner, Andrew

Cole, Gerrit

Darvish, Yu

Foltynewicz, Mike

Gonzales, Marco

Harvey, Matt

My analysis of Matt Harvey's pitching mechanics explains how I saw his elbow injury coming, but here are some tweets from this year that explain why I was concerned about his shoulder in general and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in particular due to a problem I call Hyperabduction.

Heaney, Andrew

Holland, Derek

Hughes, Phil

Kaprielian, James

Kelly, Joe

Manaea, Sean

Matuella, Michael

Matz, Steven

Parker, Jarrod

Jarrod Parker served as the basis for my piece on Flat Arm Syndrome.

Richards, Garrett

Ross, Tyson

Severino, Luis

Smith, Carson

Strasburg, Stephen

Syndergaard, Noah

Noah Syndergaard is one of the pitchers  featured in my piece on vulnerable pitchers at the 2015 All-Star Break.

Velasquez, Vincent

Walker, Taijuan

Winkler, Daniel

I have put together a new piece called The Truth About the Inverted W as a result of the repeated failure of Dan Winkler's elbow.

Wood, Alex

About The Author

Chris O'Leary never played baseball beyond grade school due to a shoulder injury suffered due to poor pitching mechanics. As a result, he is focused on ensuring that what happened to him doesn't happen to anybody else. The Epidemic is one way he hopes to achieve that goal.

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