Tyler Glasnow Expects Dodgers to Get Prime Version of Him: ‘This is Probably the Best I’ve Ever Felt’

After signing Shohei Ohtani to the largest contract in Major League Baseball history, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman’s next big move brought Tyler Glasnow and Manuel Margot to the Dodgers in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays.

In Glasnow, the Dodgers got a potential staff ace with some of the best pitch characteristics in baseball. However, concerns regarding his health and durability followed him from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles.

Over the past three seasons, Glasnow has only pitched 214.2 innings. He missed all of 2022 with an elbow injury and missed a good portion of 2023 dealing with an oblique strain. Since signing with the Dodgers, he has explained the elbow injury has been a singular, ongoing injury since 2019.

Recently, he joined Chris Rose on the “Rose Rotation,” and discussed topics like the trade, his offseason activities, and the health of his arm. When asked if fans have seen the best of Tyler Glasnow, he couldn’t have given a better answer:

I think that I haven’t even scratched it at all. … Everything’s ready to go. My arm feels better than I ever could have imagined, and my direction to home is completely back to where it was, but now I feel healthy.

Tyler Glasnow on the Chris Rose Rotation

Over his seven-year career, Glasnow has a 3.89 ERA, 3.58 FIP, and a ridiculous 11.5 strikeouts per nine innings. The ERA and FIP do not properly encapsulate just how dominant he can be on the mound. When right, the 30-year-old right-hander can mow through even the best of lineups — evidenced by his strikeout rate in an always-tough American League East division.

After a lengthy explanation describing how he’s felt at different points in his career, Glasnow offered a glowing self-evaluation:

Anything can happen in a baseball season, but in terms of the confidence going in and how I feel, this is probably the best I’ve ever felt.

Tyler Glasnow on the Chris Rose Rotation

This should excite the Dodgers and their fans. Depending on his ability to maintain health into the season, Glasnow could become the Cy Young candidate his talent says he should be.

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