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    "Dead Arm Period" - Fact or Fiction?

    I have heard much about this Spring Training phenomena for many years now. And I gotta say that I have long suspected that the Reds have used this "dead arm" angle to explain most of the dead weight in the pitching staff over the last few years.

    Those of you who are more knowledgeable than I about these things, is this a factual phenomena or is it fodder to try to explain lousy pitching?
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    Re: "Dead Arm Period" - Fact or Fiction?

    Fact

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    Re: "Dead Arm Period" - Fact or Fiction?

    Fact

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    It is absolutely fact.
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    Re: "Dead Arm Period" - Fact or Fiction?

    For some pitchers it seems to last throughout the season.

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    Re: "Dead Arm Period" - Fact or Fiction?

    El Facto
    It's absolutely pathetic that people can't have an opinion from actually watching games and supplementing that with stats. If you voice an opinion that doesn't fit into a black/white box you will get completely misrepresented and basically called a tobacco chewing traditionalist...
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    Re: "Dead Arm Period" - Fact or Fiction?

    fact

    My arm's still dead; from 1979...
    sorry we're boring


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