Dodgers Interview: Glasnow hopes to carry postseason adjustments into the new year
LOS ANGELES — You could forgive Tyler Glasnow if he were looking a bit frazzled at this point. He’s coming off a whirlwind stretch that included a wedding and another championship run. Now the focus shifts to 2026, with spring training around the corner and the usual work of getting his body and delivery synced up again. At last Saturday’s DodgerFest, Glasnow, as always, kept it straightforward.
“Good,” he said when asked how he’s feeling heading into the new season. “I feel like each offseason’s kind of been like a quick win. You had Korea, then the World Series, Japan, then the World Series. It was so much fun to do that, but I think it’s good that we can kind of go get a normal spring training other than the World Baseball Classic. I’m excited. Everyone’s excited. It’s just good to come back here to see everybody. It’s like you’re back in school with all your friends again.”
When the conversation shifted to how he finished the year and what clicked late, Glasnow pointed right to the Dodgers’ staff and a mechanical adjustment that helped him settle in. “Connor and Mark gave me so many things right before the postseason,” he said, crediting them for getting him aligned. “We made some adjustments of how my hip is lined up. I think a lot of my issues before that was me trying to find the feeling with that. Working with them, getting that feeling, kind of locking it in the postseason, this is just business as usual.”
A lot of pitchers talk about feeling great in the offseason. Glasnow admitted he’s usually in that boat, too, but he also explained why the season itself is the tricky part. “In the offseason I always feel really good, and throwing when you come in the spring, that’s never usually a thing,” he said. “As the season gets done, that gets a little bit more challenging to juggle how you feel and then also because you want to go out there and compete. You want to take the ball and throw a ton of innings. It’s finding that nice medium of a little bit of both with the ability to go out and just let it loose and put yourself in the best position.”
That balance, he said, is where the Dodgers’ routine and communication matter most, especially between starts. “You’re kind of always thinking, trying to find ways to get better in the offseason and just feel good moving forward,” Glasnow said. “But like I said, I think going in, training is good. I think it’s more about juggling the in-season stresses and stuff like that from start to start. It’s working with the training staff and the coaches and getting on that program. I’m in a really good spot right now, just kind of feeding everything through the Dodgers and having them write my program out and checking in with them.”
Glasnow also spent a moment talking about departing teammate Clayton Kershaw, who meant a lot in the clubhouse, especially in the day-to-day rhythm of a long season. “Hopefully he’s around,” Glasnow said, sounding like he was already lobbying for it. “I don’t know if he’ll do a special assistant thing or something, but he has my vote for being around all the time. He was my locker mate, and he was just a good vibe all the time. No matter if he was pitching good or pitching bad, he was always there to help anyone with whatever they needed.”
What Glasnow seemed to appreciate most was the way Kersh stayed present once his own work was done. “Some guys will get their work done and go in and do whatever they got to do,” he said. “Once he was done with his responsibilities, he would go and spread his love to everybody and almost be a coach. He was always just available. You could always be able to find him. He was very social. So many different roles and so many different hats. I’m going to miss him a ton. I’m still talking to him and texting him, and I don’t think he’ll ever really be away.”
Late in the scrum, Glasnow was asked about hearing his name in offseason trade chatter, and his answer was about as clean as it gets. “Nothing too crazy,” he said of his chats with the front office. “I was just like, ‘Is this what’s going on here?’ And they’re like, ‘Don’t worry. You’re not going anywhere.’ So it was just kind of as short as that. Short and simple. It was nice to hear.”
And it will be nice to see Glas back on the mound come April.
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