Glendale, Arizona – So much to get your work in the relaxed atmosphere of Arizona Sunshine.
All eyes were on the final departure of the Tyler Glasnow Cactus League on Saturday against the White Sox of Chicago while the team was getting closer to Wednesday’s departure for Japan and the next season’s opening matches on March 18 and 19 against Chicago Cubs.
Glasnow is expected to launch in one of the two exhibition games in Japan, and again in one of the three games in the Freeway series against the Angels from March 23 to 25. Dodgers are now looking for certain results in the middle of the chaotic calendar.
“I think this is an important start that I expect it to have this preparation, be ready to leave and launch well,” said manager Dave Roberts on Saturday morning before Glasnow takes the mound. “It’s not just a series of shows. I expect it to be good today.
Glasnow obliged by removing six in three rounds, while launching 53 throws. The only race he authorized was a home run in the second round of former teammate Miguel Vargas.
“Feel very well,” said Glasnow. “I think that the rhythm at first was not as good as the following two rounds, but most of course I felt.”
The right-hander was a solid 9-6 with an MPM of 3.49 in 22 departures last season, his season ending early with injury problems that tormented his career. Glasnow did not launch after August 11 with an elbow tendinitis.
“I think that with Tyler, my opinion is that it sometimes becomes too mechanical and does not leave its natural athletics and contribute in a way its exit,” said Roberts. “I think this spring is where it was. He freed himself much more this spring. »»
Roberts added that Glasnow continues to exploit injury without having fought with pain last season.
“I think that the essentials with Tyler is after departures, and sometimes during departures, he did not feel comfortable with his arm and there was a little residual (discomfort),” said Roberts. “So right now, it’s really free and easy and it is recovering very well.”
In Japan, Glasnow will face the Giants of Tokyo or the Hanshin Tigers. Outside the field, he is looking forward to the show that will come with the arrival of the Dodgers and the return of Shohei Ohtani.
“Ohtani is like Justin Bieber Times 10 over there, so it’s going to be crazy,” said Glasnow.
Welcome to board
The smiles of the mound on Friday evening are what confused the family of the right -handers of the Dodgers, Matt Sauer.
After a mountain of rollers of an exit Friday against the Seattle Mariners who started well before finishing by granting four points in the ninth round without recording a withdrawal, the manager Dave Roberts transformed the disappointment of Sauer into a smile.
“I entered the clubhouse just after the match and my father and my wife had already sent me a text like:” We have to know what this conversation was “,” said Sauer, who noted that he had 10 family members in the match
The conversation was Roberts who announced the news to save that he would be on the list of travel for the team’s trip to Japan. Whether on the active list of the two games against the Chicago Cubs in a week and a half, he will still win a bonus of $ 70,000.
While extended to a third round on Friday, the Sauer era climbed 8.22 into four spring outings. He also has eight stick withdrawals and a 7⅔ sleeve walk. The former hope of New York Yankees could end up being another key find of the entire Office Front. He was also a starter as recently as in 2023.
“The staff here, during the offseason, all that we talked about where I could become a big launcher, I simply clicked with me and I felt that it would be the best place for me,” said Sauer, who had his first taste of major leagues with 14 rounds for the Kansas City Royals last season. “So far I loved him.”
Do not burn
The hope of the White Sox list, Shane Smith, made a memory for a life when he withdrew Shohei Ohtani twice during the first three sleeves. This could help the choice of the draft of rule 5 among the Brewers of Milwaukee to obtain his first call for major leagues in a few weeks.
“Just mix and match him,” said Smith, 24. “He sees things very well and he is aggressive, so if you can play aggressiveness, it’s great. I think I cheated on the last quick ball; I don’t know what he saw. But he is incredible. So you play a little with the fire.
Crisis
After adding a walk to his two withdrawals in the stick on Saturday, Ohtani should not play on Sunday against athletics.
According to Roberts, Ohtani will play the last two Dodgers games at the Cactus League at home – Monday against Arizona Diamondbacks and Tuesday against the Cleveland Guardians. It will be the first time that Ohtani has played consecutive matches this spring.
Dodgers should go to Japan on Wednesday.
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