The Arm Quotes

“And it’s not like he could walk into Gibson’s office and share his pain. At one point during his rehab, Hudson was summoned by Gibson, who told him he couldn’t wait for Hudson to return to a pitching staff that lacked the toughness the manager expected. “Everyone in here is a bunch of cunts,” Gibson said.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“if Lester pitched two hundred innings in 2020 or four hundred between 2019 and 2020.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“Forget another myth, too: the problem stems from kids throwing curveballs too young. Another ASMI study showed that curveballs cause less strain on the arm than the simple, humble fastball, whose greater velocity taxes pitchers more.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“Nothing beats a major league mound, a ten-inch-high Kilimanjaro that few get to climb. Nobody in team sports commands a game like the pitcher. He dictates the pace and controls the tempo. A goalie in hockey or soccer can win a game with superior reaction. A pitcher prevents action. There is great power in that. Earlier”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“The problem is no one gives a fuck unless they’ve had elbow problems, because they just assume it’ll never happen to them. You can’t sell people preventive medicine. I think the American healthcare system and the rise of antivaccination people is proof enough of that, and baseball people are at least one order of magnitude dumber than the average American citizen.” Boddy’s”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“On the day before Daniel Hudson blew out for a second time, Todd Coffey decided to “let it eat.” This is a favorite phrase of his, one of those colloquialisms that exist only in baseball’s weird, insular ecosystem. Like, when somebody is mad, he’s not just mad. He’s “got the ass.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“Even the one that sounds too ridiculous—Coffey’s first wife found a video of him on his cell phone having sex with another woman and soon thereafter became his ex-wife—is indeed true. Coffey’s”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“There is nothing glamorous about Tommy John surgery. The urban legend of doctors performing it pre-emptively and prophylactically is unfounded. Forget another myth, too: the problem stems from kids throwing curveballs too young. Another ASMI study showed that curveballs cause less strain on the arm than the simple, humble fastball, whose greater velocity taxes pitchers more. In”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“Blue Valley West, a high school in the nouveau riche south Kansas City suburbs.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“Saint Thomas Aquinas, a private school in Lenexa, Kansas,”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“The blather about throwing being an unnatural motion could not be further from the truth. It is nature personified. Bows”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports

“It is beautifully chaotic and chaotically beautiful.”
― Jeff Passan, The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports