{"id":3763,"date":"2026-06-28T07:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:03:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:03:03","slug":"red-sox-isiah-kiner-falefa-started-swinging-as-hard-as-possible-it-almost-broke-his-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox\u2019 Isiah Kiner-Falefa started swinging as hard as possible. It almost broke his arm."},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the Red Sox were playing poorly, and he was barely playing at all, Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/b> thought his career was close to over. With nothing to lose, he adopted a new offensive approach in May: Swing as hard as possible every time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By the end of the month, his left forearm started to hurt. Now, he is out indefinitely because of a stress reaction \u2014 a precursor to a stress fracture \u2014 in his ulna, a bone in the arm\/wrist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kiner-Falefa attributes the injury to the all-out swings as well as the extreme volume, up to 300 swings per day when he wasn\u2019t in the lineup, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI was working at a crazy, crazy rate that I\u2019ve never worked at before,\u201d he said. \u201cI would go to [batting practice] and swing as hard as I could, just to try to get myself in the lineup. And it worked. Then I paid the price.<\/span><\/p>\n

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