Major League Baseball is on the precipice of a pitching crisis. Dr. Keith Meister, head team physician for the Texas Rangers and one of the country’s top elbow surgeons, believes that the MLB’s current fixation on pitching performance is shortening pitchers’ careers. In an interview with The Athletic, Meister revealed he world on 230 elbow ligaments last season and is already “way ahead of that pace” this season. The 62-year-old specialist credited managers’ obsession with velocity and the introduction of the sweeper and power changeup pitches as major causes for the uptick in injury. “We used to say, you get your one TJ, you’re good. Then it was, you get 10 years out of one. Then it was seven to eight,” Meister told The Athletic. “Now guys break down in three…