INJURIES ON THE RISE IN MLB
PETER KEATING writes this article for ESPN The Magazine that is also available on ESPN.com here. The basic idea here is that injuries have continued to increase in MLB and the author believes that steroids are to blame.

While I think that steroids are one of the causes, I don't think it is the main one. Players are bigger and stronger now just from lifting weights (and yes, some from 'roiding up). The bigger and stronger these players get the more tendons snap and strain when they run, throw or swing a bat. Like the old saying goes, you can't pull fat.

The basic premise of this article is an interesting one, but I feel that it is incomplete. Are the injury levels in the NHL, NFL and NBA rising or staying the same? Could it be that injuries are just being redefined today. For example, a player used to just 'have his bell rung' and that was it, now they actually will give cases and diagnose a player with a concussion. That's why concussions are on the rise in the NHL, players have always been getting them, just now they are finally being diagnosed.

I'd like to hear what others think on this topic. Are players being injured more because of weight lifting, because they are 'roid monsters or because clubs baby them more now a days? Let me know what you think.