Rays right-hander Tyler Glasnow underwent right wrist surgery in November but is on track to be ready for the beginning of Spring Training, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times tweets. Glasnow underwent a median nerve compression but is already throwing without issue (and had a bullpen session today, per Topkin).
It’s good news for the Rays that the 26-year-old appears to be on track for a regular Spring Training, though the fact that he went through the procedure at all is still of note. Glasnow missed more than three months of the 2019 season due to a forearm strain, and a fairly recent surgery on his pitching wrist will give the Rays extra reason to be cautious with the burgeoning star in 2020.
The 2019 season looks very much like the type of breakout many believed possible for Glasnow dating back to his days as a top prospect in the Pirates’ system. While the aforementioned forearm issue shelved him from May 26 through Sept. 8 and limited him to 60 2/3 regular-season innings, Glasnow was nothing short of elite in that time. He pitched to an immaculate 1.78 ERA with similarly excellent marks from fielding-independent pitching metrics (2.26 FIP, 2.94 xFIP, 3.18 SIERA). The towering right-hander induced grounders at better than a 50 percent clip, struck out nearly a third of the hitters he faced and maintained a tidy 6.1 percent walk rate.
A healthy Glasnow should be a major piece in what looks like an outstanding Rays rotation in 2020. He’ll join Charlie Morton, Blake Snell, Ryan Yarbrough and Yonny Chirinos as rotation options for manager Kevin Cash as the Rays take aim at a return trip to the postseason.
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Glasnow has some serious talent, hope this surgery doesn’t set him back to much.
The key with a pitcher of this ability is getting him to the postseason with something left in the tank. That might take a couple of years. Based on a limited body of work, he could be a force to be reckoned with down the road.
Ohh, what it would be like to have this team’s FO..
…sigh.
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If Snell, Morton and glasnow all have seasons up to their potential this is the best rotation in baseball.
Not sure it’s the best, but it’s in the conversation. Even more than that, add in McKay (if he gives up the two-way silliness) and Honeywell (if healthy, probably around June) and it’s 7 pitchers deep. And they have more coming.
And, tho it’s iffy, the bullpen can be very good.
Would love to see Honeywell up there. His screwball is pretty awesome to watch.
Hate to be that guy, but just FYI it was a median nerve decompression (not compression) – a procedure designed to relieve the pressure (compression) on the median nerve. Appreciate all the free content and understand that y’all don’t have multiple layers of editors, just wanted to help avoid confusion/trolls. Keep up the great work!
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