Why aren't pitchers getting drawn into the steroid net?

[billymonk]

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Pitchers don't take steroids because being bigger and stronger is not what makes pitchers great. Pitchers need to be extremely flexible. Pitching is about torque. Sure, stronger legs can give you more power, but bulking up your arms and torso does nothing for your fastball.

For every Roger Clemens there are ten pitchers with the body makeup of Pedro Martinez.


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Yes.

Like a turkey has white meat and brown meat, humans have fast twitch muscles and slow twitch muscles.

Slow twitch enables you to hit a baseball far.
Fast twitch enables you to throw a baseball fast.

Steroids work on your slow twitch muscles, in turn, pitchers don't need to take steroids, for throwing harder. Instead, if they do take them, it would be for other reasons listed in this thread.

[Daliman]

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most baseball insiders have said for a while, that pitchers whom take roids do it not to become stronger, but to enable their arm to heal faster during days off. In fact, not to long ago, a baseball analyst on OTL, said several posistion players admitted anonymously to taking roids because it made their body feel better the next day after games, thus enabling them to practice and play more.

I found all of this interesting, because up until this, I had always thought players took roids to simply get stronger, but apparently some take roids just to get out of bed. geesh.

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Absolutely right. A major selling point of taking roids is the faster heal time. WHATEVER workout they are doing for strength, speed, flexibility, elasticity, etc. It doesn't specifically help flexibility and elasticity from what I know so much as it accelerates the heal time. And, of course, arm strength helps lots with 100mph fastballs.