Poster 192. Diminished Batted Ball Control Following Ulnar Collateral Ligament Repair or Reconstruction with Internal Bracing in Professional Pitchers: A Statcast-Based Evaluation
Ashley E Rosenberg, Rhea D Rasquinha, Haneef Khan, Aditya D Patel, Cameron Thomson, Matthew S Quinn, Stephen Marcaccio · 2026
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Rosenberg and colleagues present in 2026, as conference poster 192, a Statcast-based check on whether elbow ligament surgery with internal bracing leaves professional pitchers subtly diminished. The check goes beyond what traditional statistics show. The ulnar collateral ligament is the elbow ligament torn by throwing.
The matched study followed 23 Major League pitchers operated on between 2016 and 2024 against 1,569 age-matched controls, using pitch-tracking data from full seasons before and after surgery. After surgery, batters hit the cases' pitches harder: exit velocity, barrel rate, and hard-hit share against them all rose clearly. Their own fastball velocity dropped by about two miles per hour in the post-surgery seasons analyzed here. Workload fell too, with fewer innings and strikeouts, and batters swung and missed less often. The declines exceeded the changes seen in matched controls over the same span.
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| CREATOR | Ashley E Rosenberg, Rhea D Rasquinha, Haneef Khan, Aditya D Patel, Cameron Thomson, Matthew S Quinn, Stephen Marcaccio |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |