Giants' Logan Webb has a rough start. Tony Vitello says sore knee might be to blame

SAN FRANCISCO — Logan Webb did not luck into durability. He didn’t become the National League’s foremost plow horse through genetics alone.Along with studying pitch shapes and scouting reports, the San Francisco Giants’ right-handed ace has invested just as much time into studying what it takes to stay healthy on the mound, to make every start without fail, to pitch reliably deep into games and to keep surpassing 200 innings during an era in which that threshold has become a moonshot. He’s consulted with biomechanics experts in the offseason. He’s read up on dynamic muscular stabilization. He hired a kinesiologist to design his offseason core workouts. He throws a football, not merely to relive his high school glory days when he quarterbacked Rocklin down the field against Granite Bay, but to practice getting his arm up quickly in his delivery. Studies show it’s a movement that can preserve arm health in pitchers.Advertisement