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Smoltz Has Been Warning Parents About Youth Baseball for Years: Here's Why Nobody Is Listening
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John Smoltz spent five minutes of his Hall of Fame speech warning about the youth baseball crisis — and says nobody is listening. He breaks down why baseball, not parents, is the real culprit behind the Tommy John epidemic, why kids are being asked to specialize at eight years old, and why the sport has always been better when it chooses you rather than the other way around.
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