I’ve been keeping track of the Goliaths in the sport of baseball. Who’s kicking butt and is uninjured.

And who is hurt… AGAIN. 

I have my theories about some of these big guys and why they get hurt. An injury here and there happens to the best of the best. But when someone gets hurt every year, season after season, you gotta look deeper. 

One of the things I observe about the injured is how much time the athlete spends in the weight room? That’s a big revealer. The more weights the fella pumps, the bigger his muscles, the greater the likelihood that he will be injured… A LOT. 

Take Giancarlo Stanton, as an example. He’s only had one season that I am aware of that he wasn’t injured, and that was in Miami. Then he got traded to the Yanksters in Nuevo Yorko, and all he has to do is hit the ball. He never (or rarely) plays the field. And yet he’s constantly getting injured.

When you take a look at Stanton’s physique, you would assume he’s invincible, bullet-proof and all that jazz. His muscles are huge, yet he gets hurt over and over again.

The latest Yankster to be injured is Aaron Judge. His big toe is hurt and he might be out for the season. What’s wrong? Exactly what el Furecat’s been saying for a long, long time, before it became trendy and popular.

Is it the muscles that are injured? Hell no. It’s the tendons and ligaments. As I’ve stated for a couple decades now, most of the injuries in sports are NOT to those “bullet-proof” muscles.

Nothing wrong with having Herculean muscles, if that’s what you want – except that if the tendons and ligaments are lagging behind, and they almost always are, you’re going to pay the price.

The Tampa Bay Rays lost two starting pitchers this year… for the entire season, and the Rays baby their pitching staff more than any other team in the MLB.

It’s almost as though the management says, “So what if you’ve only thrown 60 pitches in six innings with 12 strikeouts? We better take you out, just to be safe.”

And the more the coaches try to keep their pitchers “safe,” the more injuries they tend to accumulate.

Now the Rays’ ace, Shane McClanahan is hurt. He exited early last week with lower back stiffness. They gave him a rest, then put him on the mound again last night, and he got pulled after three innings. What’s the problem? Same thing. Lower back stiffness.

​​​​​​​The staff has no idea what’s wrong with his back. So now they’re talking about putting him on the IL (injured list) during the All-Star break, “as a precaution.”

Does a single person on the Rays staff know the loosening exercises I teach, the ones that hit all the major joints of the body, and oftentimes eliminate mysterious pains within days? And sometimes, that same day?

I think not.

But they’ll put these guys back in the weight room without giving it a second thought.

I love watching Shane McClanahan. He’s a bonafide ass-kicker, but I don’t think giving him a rest is the key to fixing his lower back. It can be part of the protocol, but that’s not enough. He needs to learn how to move when he’s not on the mound. He needs to learn how to move to recharge and recover from the effort he puts out.

Again, I have my theories and I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.

I have had a lot of injuries over the years. 99% of them came before I learned to train my tendons and ligaments.

Upon learning to train in a different way, I eliminated my aches and pains, and did so with exercises that appeared to be too simple, too rinky-dink.

​​​​​​​Will I refer to my tendons and ligaments as “bullet-proof?”

No. Because no ones are.

But… that is definitely the ideal I am shooting for, and I am more than just a little bit certain that I am moving in that direction.

Today, I am 60 years of age, and yet I am still talking about kicking ass and taking names… because I can.

What about you? You want to kick butt?

Then go here.

Matt Furey