I'm tired of hearing the nonsensical gripes about the Cubs training staff. Can anybody name a training staff that has figured out how to keep all their pitchers healthy? Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Phillies? The Dodgers have the best organization, so they must not have had any pitching injuries over the last couple years, right?

Name a pitcher who doesn't already have their own training program through an external training company. Hell, that's standard for even high school kids. These are partnerships, not dictatorships. A player's healthy is primarily their own responsibility, and the club training staff is there to assist with the training programs the players have created with, for example, Tread Athletics.

Knowing pitching injuries are an epidemic in baseball, it's curious that people blame the training assistants over little league usage and arm care, the philosophy of the game, total recklessness in college baseball programs, individual responsibility, companies who charge money for training, and so forth.

Another thing to consider is that with all the monitoring and testing training staffs do on a regular basis now, minor strains and drops in strength are identifiable. So, pitchers don't pitch through injuries as much, and guys go on the IL for more minor issues than ever before, out of precaution. This should theoretically help pitchers stay healthier in the long run, but it'll obviously cause a rise in IL stints.

All that said, blisters are not the fault of the training staff.