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By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - The plague of elbow injuries struck again in spring training with Texas ace Yu Darvish and young Zack Wheeler of the New York Mets the latest key pitchers to fall, and Major League Baseball wants to know why. "The last three or four years, we've seen an increase of Tommy John injuries at the major league level," Chris Marinak, MLB's senior vice president for economics and league strategy, told Reuters. A survey of MLB pitchers found that 25 percent of them had at some point in their career undergone Tommy John surgery, named for the pitcher who in 1974 was the first to have his torn ulnar collateral ligament reconstructed.
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