Dodgers’ Tyler Glasnow Provides Huge Update on Health Heading Into 2025 Season
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow, whose season ended in August because of a sprained elbow, gave a hopeful update about his playing status for the 2025 season.
“I feel as good as I’ve ever felt,” Glasnow said at FanFest Saturday.
Glasnow added that he is already throwing. Pitchers and catchers report to Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona on Feb. 11.
When the Dodgers signed Glasnow for $136.5 million, it was with the expectation he would lead the Los Angeles rotation in the postseason. But that goal fell apart once it was announced the ace would miss the remainder of the year.
Glasnow’s injury news was a devastating blow for the Dodgers, which propelled manager Dave Roberts to host an impromptu meeting during the team’s September series in Atlanta.
“It was one time that we see a lot of fans, that we see not from the team but from the outside, everybody was panicking because we got a lot of injuries. We lose a lot of pitchers,” Teoscar Hernández said.
“It was one time that we felt like we were down as a team. And one meeting changed everything. And then we realized that we have the potential, that we have the players, that we’re still the Dodgers. And we can do special things with the people we have healthy throughout the year and just the opportunity to maintain the team on the top until those guys were able to come back and keep helping the team win.”
Hernández isn’t the only player who believed Roberts’ unexpected meeting following the loss of Glasnow in the rotation turned the Dodgers’ season around.
“It was significant because he knows the group,” Miguel Rojas told Dodgers Nation’s Doug McKain. “He always said it, he said it from the bottom of his heart. He said in Atlanta when he got that meeting with us that he trusts in this group, and he loved this group more than any group that he had. So I believe him, I trust him, and I feel like he was saying that the truth from the bottom is heart.”
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The Dodgers have a long history of pitchers with arm problems. We can go back to Tommy John or Sandy Koufax if you want. For me, it began with the signing of Kevin Brown and many subsequent signings of many more talented pitchers and prospects that, unfortunately never panned out for the Blue. Just take a look at the current staff (new additions excluded) and what have we got? Tyler Glasnow, Tony Gonsolin, Dustin May, Clayton Kershaw, and on goes the list or the Injured List. I am not seeing this across the leagues with the other teams. Why are the Dodgers so suspect and susceptible?