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Tyler Glasnow Will Be Evaluated After Leaving Rehab Start Early

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ALTOONA, PA – Tyler Glasnow was removed an inning early from his rehab start after Curve coaches and training staff noticed that “he looked uncomfortable and was shaking his arm”, which Curve Manager Joey Cora confirmed after the game. He was scheduled to go four innings or 65 pitches, but he was removed after throwing 56 pitches in three innings.

Glasnow was visited by the Curve’s trainer on the mound after throwing three pitches in third inning. Ironically enough, he threw two 90 MPH change-ups for strikes and a 94 MPH fastball before Altoona trainer, Dru Scott, and the Altoona coaches went to the mound to check on him. He told them that he was okay and continued pitching.

“We saw that he was feeling uncomfortable and was doing some strange stuff with his arm,” Cora said. “We kind of wondered what it was.”

Glasnow walked a batter and allowed a run after a line drive got past a diving Barrett Barnes in left field during the inning, but he otherwise struck out the side in the third. His velocity looked fine, sitting between 92 – 96 MPH with his fastball, but the Curve coaches decided it was best to cut his outing short.

“He said he was fine, but we didn’t like the way he was looking,” Cora said. “That’s why we took him out.”

Trying to watch as closely as possible following the mound visit, I noticed Glasnow continually oscillating his shoulder joint after he pitched, as if he were trying to loosen it up or as if something felt uncomfortable. I’m not sure if I would’ve thought too much about it if not for the trainer’s visit to the mound, but it was pretty obvious as that inning progressed.

Making matters more interesting, Glasnow, who was scheduled to meet with media immediately following his exit from the game, left the ballpark without speaking to members of the media. The organization kept pushing back the time of his availability, presumably for treatment time, but he then left before the time that media was told he would be ready to speak.

It was confirmed after the game that Glasnow is heading back to Pittsburgh to be evaluated.

“He’s going to Pittsburgh to get checked out to be sure everything is alright,” Cora said. “It seemed like he wasn’t comfortable with something. He was shaking his arm and all that stuff. We didn’t like his body language. When he came out, we talked to the trainers, and he’s going to get checked out tomorrow in Pittsburgh.”

Justin Meccage was his pitching coach last year with the Curve, and he said that he noticed that Glasnow was “doing some weird movements that we didn’t see before”. Meccage said that Glasnow has always done some strange movements with his arm while pitching, but this was unlike anything they’ve seen.

The start of the game was delayed 1 hour and 49 minutes after a rain delay, and Meccage said that he needs to improve on staying ready for situations like that to occur.

“It got a little funky because of the rain delay,” Meccage said. “He’s really good with his routines, and that’s something that he is going to have to learn from.”

If everything checks out alright with his arm/shoulder and he continues on to pitch after his Sunday night outing in Altoona, Glasnow will have something to build upon.

He began the game extremely strong, throwing 12 pitches in the first inning, ten of them for strikes. He threw nine fastballs and three curveballs, and he got two strikeouts (one with the fastball swinging and one with the curve ball swinging).

Glasnow did allow a leadoff home run in the second inning to the second leading home run hitter in the Eastern League, and it looked as if Reading’s Dylan Cozens sat fastball and teed off on the pitch. It looked like his command became inconsistent at times following that first inning, but Meccage said it may have been because Glasnow was tiring quickly tonight.

“It may have been a situation where he may have tired after the first inning,” Meccage said. “He hasn’t gotten up other than the sim game, and this was totally different. It was a pretty good atmosphere, and sometimes they just get a little to ramped up. I just thought he tired out a little bit, especially in that third inning. He got through the second, but he finished okay.”

Glasnow did throw two changeups by my count, both of which were before the trainer’s visit to the mound, and they were strikes. Both his fastball and curveball were extremely strong early, showing life, but they became inconsistent as the outing progressed.

Even at the end of the third inning before leaving the game, he was still hitting 94 – 95 MPH with his fastball.

We will report any more news on Glasnow’s check-up as soon as we know anything.

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