Burgeoning Rays ace Tyler Glasnow has been on the shelf since May 10 with right forearm tightness, an injury that will keep him out for at least several more weeks after a recent setback. But Glasnow issued an encouraging update Sunday, per Juan Toribio of MLB.com. The 25-year-old revealed his UCL “looks really good” and said that he expects to pitch again this season. He’ll still remain in shutdown mode over the next two weeks, though.
Tampa Bay lost to AL East rival New York in Glasnow’s most recent start, though the Rays still boasted a 23-14 record and a half-game lead over the Yankees at that point. The tables have turned during Glasnow’s lengthy absence, as the Rays have gone a middling 24-22 and now trail the Yankees by seven games. They still hold a one-game lead on the AL’s No. 1 wild-card position, however.
It’s obvious Glasnow’s injury isn’t the lone reason for Tampa Bay’s team-wide decline, but it clearly hasn’t helped. The 6-foot-8 hurler opened the season in dazzling fashion, with a 1.86 ERA/2.27 FIP, 10.24 K/9 against 1.68 BB/9, and a 51.7 percent groundball rate across 48 1/3 innings.
With reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell having taken sizable steps back this year, Glasnow’s injury has been all the more damaging to the club. Charlie Morton has been outstanding, and Yonny Chirinos has also done well in an expanded role, but the Rays have been limited to those two and Snell as traditional starters. The Rays could explore the market for starters before the July 31 trade deadline as a result, though they did just promote high-end prospect Brendan McKay. The 23-year-old gave Tampa Bay a much-needed six innings of one-hit ball in a win over Texas on Saturday.
Neil Huntington here. Would you like Chris Archer back?
expectations and reality are two very different things.
As a Pirates fan I am extremely happy that Tyler Glasnow has lived up to the hype in Tampa Bay. He failed in Pittsburgh horribly. This is truly a case of how a change in scenery benefited a gifted pitcher. Once a Bucco always a Bucco.
I think Pittsburgh does not have the coaching they boast about. Both player that were traded to them became all stars. They are fulfilling their potential in Tampa. Neil hunninton has gone down hill the last few years. Need a new owner period.
I read somewhere that in Pittsburgh Glasnow was coached to keep all his pitches down. When he got to Tampa Bay their staff told him to keep the breaking stuff down but fire the fastball up high. Presto Chango.
Not so fast on Meadows and Glasnow. As a fan I hope the turn out as you say. Glasnow already had an issue in working his way back and may or may not,be the same pitcher he was before the injury. Meadows has cooled considerably over the last mont and his avg and ops are dropping quickly. He may or may not bounce back too. His 1st 2 months were the best of his pro career.
**i hope they turn out as you say.
He’s missed bad the last couple trades but he’s had some good successes.
He was spot on with McCutcheon Hudson for Dickerson….
Why did Pittsburgh both trade young “prospects” and Cole? It normally wouldn’t bother me honestly but it’s weird to see both and both seem to be bad decisions on their part. It reminds me of some of the Rays deals. They traded for Boxberger, Forsythe and a couple others with one I believe helping (maybe Roe) and close to that also gave up alot to get Karns. I liked what Karns did for them and thought it was an alright trade at a point but then I was reminded that they traded Felipe Rivero/Vasquez in that trade (later he was sent along with Hearns to Pittsburgh for Melancon I believe), had they not made him part of the deal, did the same on the Dickerson trade keeping G Marquez, and not have traded for Souza when they did keeping Turner and temporarily Ross they’d have a much better team right now. Vasquez shuts the door, Marquez gives them another quality sp’er especially this and last year, Turner plays infield, outfield for them while leading off, Ross is traded for later the same season (After taking off in the minors and reaching MLB) for Souza (Allowing his play and later trade), honestly keeping Dickerson for another month even allows them to not sign Gomez (saving $3,000,000 if you say they couldn’t afford him they actually paid more than his salary) and even though I like him they could have traded (imo) Turner as part of a deal for Rendon before he had fully elevated his game, around 2015-16. Now being stuck with Turner wouldn’t be bad but Rendon necessitates the Longoria trade a year earlier. Vasquez hopefully gets them to trade Boxberger a year or more earlier. All of this might sound crazy but it’s not far off what could have occured while not even mentioning all the money saved. Trading Odorizi, for instance to the ChiW for Tatist instead of SD trading Shields. Honestly trading Cron in July to the Yankees helps the Rays even without then packaging Gallegos with some nobody to STL for Voit. It makes the Yankees about the same team this year while costing them at least $5,000,000 in extra payroll and allowing Choi to either be traded or be in TrippleA for a little time. These moves were mainly simple and many including myself questioned if not the trades the people involved. This would have caused 40 man and other crunches that could have resulted in extra trades that actually brought back talent. Maybe the Rays end up packaging Wendle, Faria plus to SD for Paddac, or Choi plus to Pit for Bell, (I’ve got to admit I really liked his pick in the draft) or Scherzer and Turner (unlikely I know) being acquired along with cash for Marquez, KK, and Duffy. It’s just crazy to think of this team how good it’s been and how good the farms been being this much better. Vasquez, Alvarado, Castillo, Stanek, Pagan, Poche, Kolarak/Roe/Drake all together. They might have started out hotter and almost definitely would have won a couple of these games lost by Alvarado/Castillo blowing saves.