About the Authors

Claudio Rosso

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudio Rosso, Michael Nasr

Affiliation Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael Nasr

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudio Rosso, Michael Nasr

Affiliation Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kempland C. Walley

Affiliation Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ethan R. Harlow

Affiliation Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Babak Haghpanah

Affiliations Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ashkan Vaziri

Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arun J. Ramappa

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

Affiliation Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ara Nazarian

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

Affiliations Center for Advanced Orthopaedic Studies, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joseph P. DeAngelis

jpdeange@bidmc.harvard.edu

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

Affiliation Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Funding from all sources, including the Medical Advisory Committee of the Major League Baseball, does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AV AJR AN JPD. Performed the experiments: CR MN KCW ERH BH. Analyzed the data: CR MN KCW ERH BH. Wrote the paper: CR MN KCW ERH BH AV AJR AN JPD.