similar plans last week after guidelines showed the ban was already in effect. the new bill would make illegal any bullet that can pierce police body armor. that s the news. brian. new york city mets pitcher out for the season after tearing a ligament in his elbow. he s 24 and will undergo tommy john surgery, a procedure more than 30 major league players had in 2014. medical experts saying this elbow injury isn t just for the pros. 28% of all youth pitchers reporting a history of elbow pain. is your child at risk? dr. david samadi is here with what parents need to know. we re seeing an increase of the frequency in these types of pains and injuries why? i think the seasons are getting longer and the practices are getting more competitive. the parents are pushing the kids to throw the ball faster. i think it s important for parents to eelize what the symptoms are. a lot of times they will feel pain or swelling inside the
pitch counts are at historic lows. these injuries are set in motion in the developing elbow. so this is something where the groundwork is set by micro tears 18 ligament when the elbow is developing. during puberty, when the arm is growing. what we re seeing at the major league level is something that can be preventsed at the major league level. it has to be prevented in the developing pitcher. you say before they even get to the big leagues they show up as good as they may be they show up perhaps with these micro tears or injuries. right. they are pitching less than ever at the major league there s only so much less they could possibly pitch at the major league level but their lifetime pitch countses are higher than ever. there are youth pitchers playing for multiple teams, the teams that aren t coordinating between one another. so instead of having 80 pitches on five days rest, you have 80 pitches on one or two days rest. there are these showcases where youth pitchers are made t
pitches on 5 days rest, you re having 80 pitches on one or two days rest for youth pitchers. there are these showcases where youth pitchers are sort of made to show up if they want to be scouted by other teams so they re pitching like crazy. and radar guns have become ubiquitous, not just coaches but parents are using them now. so they are throwing harlder than ever before at a younger age. one of the things we ve been thinking, the number of operations are increasing and it s reflective of the fact that there s all these problems with elbows in particular. could it be that not so much you have more injuries it s that we re diagnosing them more, players are more likely to get the surgery as opposed to before? so it may not have changed that much it s just our approach toward intervention has changed. i think there s an aspect of that certainly more getting diagnosed and sort of continuing to want to pitch rather than sort of dropping out of the sport altogether. at the same time t
all-time high. so, how do you reconcile those two things? that s right. there s no question that major league pitchers are pitching less than they ever have before. pitch counts are kind of at historic lows. but these injuries are set in motion in the developing elbow, right? so, this is something where the groundwork is set by microtears in the ligament when that elbow is developing, you know, during puberty when the arm s growing and so what we re seeing at the major league level is something that can t be prevented at the major heeg level. it has to be prevented in the developing pitcher. you re saying all this happens before they even get to the big leagues. they show up as good as they may be they show up with the microtears or microinjuries. that s right. they re pitching less than ever at the major league. there s only so much less they could even possibly pitch at the major league level, but their lifetime pitch counts are higher than ever before. youth pitchers are pla