genoasalami said:
Victorino is a walking medical experiment - How do you get hurt so often running around a bit - throwing a ball on occasion and swinging a boat 20 times a game? Hockey players are not impressed.
You might want to pay attention a little more. "running around a bit" does not accurately describe what an outfielder does during a game. Between backing up plays and tracking down balls hit to his area of the field, he does quite a bit of running. He also is often going from standing to a full on sprint multiple times a day, and that kind of running is a good way to cause injuries or re-inflame tissue. Then add in the fact that he tends to crash into walls, dive and slide a lot and we can move on to his base running which also tends to be fairly intense on his body. Is he injury prone? Absolutely. Is it a mystery that he gets hurt as often as he does? Not even a little bit.
Also, if you think he's only swinging a bat 10-20 times in a day you probably haven't played baseball beyond a little league level. He's very likely swinging the bat 10-20 times during the course of a game just at the plate, When you consider warm up swings in the on deck circle and add in batting practice and time in the cage the number climbs quickly. It amuses me when people describe baseball as a sport that doesn't require a lot of physical activity. Players move on every play and have to endure the stop and go for 3-4 hours around 6 times a week. There's a reason they call the season a grind. It takes an incredible level of physical fitness to be able to endure that, and when a guy like Victorino (who has spent his career always pushing himself to 100%, crashing into walls, diving and sliding all over the place) gets into his mid-30's it should surprise no one that he's breaking down and just can't do it anymore.
I know the joke is that baseball players aren't tough, but when I see that posted I can't help but wonder if the person posting it doesn't really understand the game of baseball.