Glasnow’s new pitch, CT3 makes another swing change, Enrique finally gets

It’s now been over a month since Spring Training kicked off for the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch, and there’s been a lot going on during the games. However, there’s also a bunch of news happening apart from that, like new pitches, swing changes, and even trades.

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With three pitches, Tyler Glasnow already had Dodger fans dreaming about his upside in the rotation, and we’ve already seen how that could look this Spring. However, he’s apparently also working on another pitch: a two-seam fastball.

Glasnow has spent the spring working on a two-seam fastball that’s running at 99 mph. Complementing his elite slider and curveball with a blistering sinker to go along with his high-velocity four-seam fastball borders on unfair.

It’s especially interesting because as some guy pointed out, he doesn’t seem like an obvious fit for the pitch, though it’s a change to watch regardless.

Really interested to see if Tyler Glasnow can make this new sinker work, because he’s the most north-south SP in baseball by a lot.

This list is read as: most pitches thrown with less than 3 inches of horiz break (any direction), by SP w 250 P min.

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Speaking of changes, Chris Taylor famously made one to his swing back in 2017, adding lift to his swing and thus changing the path of his career. Well he recently spoke about making a swing change again this off-season, but this time in the other direction.

Taylor finds it easier to do a lot of that work during the offseason, making his biggest swing changes and adjustments away from the day-to-day competition in season. This winter, the focus was on creating a flatter bat path that will produce more line drives and more frequent contact.

“There’s a lot to it. But I think my path is better,” he said. “I worked really hard on basically creating a flatter bat path this offseason. I feel like I’ve even over-adjusted a little bit where I’ve been over fastballs. I can’t even remember the last time I was doing that. I feel like when I’m on time I’m hitting more line drives right now.”

It’s been back-to-back down years for him, so hopefully the results of this change ends up being similarly successful to the one he made before.

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One story I apparently missed entirely was that Enrique Hernandez says he has basically been playing hurt since 2021.

When he innocuously slipped in the outfield late during his first season with the Boston Red Sox in 2021, both he and the club’s staff felt Hernández was simply dealing with tightness in his hip.

Come the next spring, the issue persisted. The utilityman felt discomfort while running, spurring a string of blood tests to find a cause. Those tests came back clean. An MRI revealed issues with Hernández’s psoas muscle — a series of muscles that overlay his vertebral…