PHOENIX — If only Tyler Glasnow had my appetite.
You can’t have it all, and Glasnow already has plenty: a defined 6-foot-8 frame, movie-star looks and a high-90s fastball.
The one area in which he’s no match for 5-8, 220-pound Dylan Hernandez is the ability to put on weight. The Dodgers believe the absence of fat in his body is related to how injury-prone he is, which is why they have assigned him a task that my sportswriting colleagues and I would easily ace: To eat, eat and eat some more.
“I lose weight really fast,” Glasnow said. “If I don’t stay on top of it and I don’t weigh myself for like a week, I’ll lose, like, 7 pounds. It’s crazy.”
To reach his ideal playing weight, Teoscar Hernandez dropped a dozen pounds over the winter by controlling his food portions. Most of the Dodgers who gained weight in the offseason, such as Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Gavin Stone, gained muscle mass.
Glasnow’s objective was to become fatter.
The organization’s calls for him to do so started last year when he was placed on the injured list in late April with shoulder inflammation.
“They were, like, ‘If you add some more fat, it kind of binds into your tissue a little bit better,’” Glasnow said. “I tried it, and I felt a lot better.”
He now walks around at 240-plus pounds, up from his traditional playing weight in the 220s. By one measure, his body fat has increased from 5% to more than 9%.
“I feel good at (a lower) weight,” Glasnow said. “I just think it’s hard to go through a full season like that. It’s good to have some weight to play with.”
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