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MLB player development staffs have been trapped in a downward spiral for decades. Go back to the 1980s and 1990s, and there really was a problem of pitchers asked to do too much at young ages and being broken in the process. MLB stopped doing that, but they overlearned the lesson. Pitchers got hurt, so the teams pitched them less, and they still got hurt, so they pitched them less, and they still got hurt...and now you have the next generation of starters averaging five innings a start and 100 innings a season, while the execs glare angrily at the Edgertronic in the corner.
