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Pardon My Take
Author Jeff Passan discussed his book, which explores the massive financial burden pitcher injuries place on Major League Baseball. He explained that teams waste nearly a billion dollars annually on sidelined players, making the quest for pitcher health the 'holy grail' of the sport. The conversation highlighted the book as a definitive look at one of baseball's most significant and costly mysteries.
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The speaker mentioned that he wrote this book in 2016 about the financial waste in Major League Baseball due to pitcher injuries, calling figuring out how to keep pitchers healthy the "holy grail" of the sport.
I wrote a book called the arm and it was about the idea that major league baseball every year wastes about a billion dollars on pitchers who are injured.