Tyler GlasNow Was 21 years old and full of promise when he was on top of our 2015 Pittsburgh Pirates top perspectives list when it was published in January of that year. Our lead prospectalist Karey McDaniel then gave plus figures to both the stove of GlasNow and his hook, with the opinion that the long right-handed no. 2 starter potential.
Despite an injury history that includes Tommy John operation, GlasNow has largely met expectations. Derominated 152th General in 2011 in 2011 by William S. Hart High School in Santa Clarita, California, he was traded in July 2018 to the Tampa Bay Rays (a Deadline Deal Pirates fans would like to forget it) and registered a 3.20 ERA and 3.10 FIP more than 71 start. Then exchanged to the Los Angeles Dodgers in December 2023, GlasNow has a 3.47 ERA and a 3.28 FIP over 31 start with its current club. He is top quality when he is completely fit, but he has trouble staying healthy. This season he was out with shoulder inflammation from the end of April to the beginning of July.
What did GlasNow’s 2015 Fangraphs Scouting Report look like? Moreover, what does he think about it all those years later? I wanted to find out, I shared a part of what McDaniel wrote and asked GlasNow to respond to it.
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“GlasNow was set up in 2011 in the fifth round of high school as a low-profile pure project bet with fringy-to-average things and a limited track record.”
“That is probably pretty accurate,” GlasNow replied. “I was the fifth round, just more projectable and threw 89-91 [mph]. I had a decent curveball, but it wasn’t very good yet. My things were decent for high school, but compared to Pro Ball, not really. I was Lower Velo, usually only two pitches, and I had a very bad change. “
“He blew up in 2013 and dominated Low-A with a fastball that hit 97 MPH. He continued his progress at High-A in 2014, sat 93-96 km / h and hit 98 Mph.”
“Quite accurate,” he agreed. “I grew in myself. A bit of it was mechanical. I used to be very long and late, and I just got more on time. I was certainly a bit stronger. I was set up at 17, so it would have been a combination of age and improved mechanics.”
“A plus curveball and improving change.”
“The curveball has always been there,” he said about his first -class breaker. “The change has never been improved. It was always bad, so I just stopped throwing. I think the last time I threw one was probably 2019 – that was just one or two – but it was 2017 or 2018 when I stopped for the most part.
(Statcast last followed a change of GlasNow in 2023, when it says that he threw five, to go along with 34 in 2021, 45 in 2020 and 32 in 2019. Anyway, he barely threw it in those years and in the past two seasons, he completely left it.)
“The long limbs of GlasNow create some command/delivery problems with which he has already made a lot of progress.”
“That was then, 2015? Yes. It was better than early,” said GlasNow, who is 6-foot-8. “My running speed started to fall every year. I still had rough spots around that point. In 2016 and 2017 it was a bit sucked up again, and then it got better. I think a bit [the command issue] Was not super confident. And then the delivery, the repeatability.
“I was always so touched and missed every start, and I had no grip why I was bad,” he said when he was asked to work out his lack of self -confidence. “I just didn’t have much control over my body. I would say that 2015 was a good year, so it was fine – even if a small hit or miss – but 2016 and 2017 in the big competitions it wasn’t that good. I think my trust was at its lowest. I was traded in 2018 and then it got better.”
“His VELO was a Teek in the Afl, with his command and off speed heights now fairly the same, but that just seemed to be tiredness of a long season for a meager boy who still adds bulk to his frame.”
“I can’t remember being super tired,” he said. “I think a big problem is that there were so often in the small competitions where I would have a good month, a bad month, a good month. Mechanical, things would just be a kind of … It was just hard to throw hard. I didn’t even know what I was doing. But it wasn’t consistent. The autumn competition was just one of those months that I just didn’t feel right.
“Has a creepy capacity to recommend his curveball, something I have seen alone José Fernández Under the prospects at this level. “
“I did well in 2014,” he remembered. “I still had a fairly high running speed, but my curveball was good for strikes. I only threw two throws, so it was certainly decent in 2014. Some days it was terrible, but in many others it was good.”
“There is no. 2 starter upside down, with less risk every day.”
“I think when I was good, it was pretty clear that I was good,” said GlasNow. “When I was bad, it was pretty clear that I was bad. I think it was an honest assessment at that time.”
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