We lost a golden opportunity for other people to make more hash six org jokes.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/New-Strasburg-rookie-card-auction-goes-north-of-?urn=mlb-250740

Someday, hopefully, science will catch up the with the sport, and we’ll figure out how to keep some of these great young arms healthy…If MLB wants to find an area to invest in their long term future, this is where they should be throwing money.

This got me thinking, so I posted some questions that people with a lot more familiarity with scientific and medical research might be able to answer. I figured I’d post them here to. Any ideas?

-How would the research be funded, who would fund it, and who would carry it out? Are private, for-profit firms at the cutting edge or this, or university medical schools, or something else?

-Would the individual team that funded the a particular study have proprietary ownership over the fruits of its research? If so, would the resultant lack of collaboration and information sharing hinder the development of scientific understanding of injury prevention?

-How important is widely sharing information among researchers here crucial to a breakthrough (is it more or less important than a typical scientific endeavor?)

-Would it be a better overall for baseball and for young pitchers for MLB itself to fund a big, cooperative research program many teams participate and share the results or to have each team competitively funding its own studies and controlling the rights to its discoveries? With pitchers moving around so much, would it be hard, ethical, or even possible for a team to keep its magic breakthrough secret from everyone else?