How many fat pitchers have you seen suffer a major arm injury?
I'm being semi serious.
There haven't been that many fat pitchers, honestly, but they don't seem to get hurt.
Early Wynn, who got a lot heavier as he aged. 58.5 fWAR
Mike Garcia, the Big Bear, also got wider. 40.1 fWAR.
Mickey Lolich. 64.4 fWAR
CC Sabathia. 66.5 fWAR
Bartolo Colon. 51 fWAR
Jumbo Brown was a reliever for 13 years in MLB. He weighed 295.
Jonathan Broxton was a good reliever for 13 yrs, with nearly 700 appearances. He weighed 285.
Jeff Fulchino was a reliever for five years. He had two really good years with Houston. He weighed 270.
Maybe, instead of the baseball backfields, we should be scouting the buffets. Less weights, more food.
I do think that baseball players, and pitchers esp, are being over trained. There are too many injuries today that weren't even heard of forty years ago.
You don't hear of plough horses pulling a tendon or having to be put down because they shattered a leg.
There is such a thing as being too finely tuned.