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A hot-button topic in the sports world recently has been the presumed ability of athletes jumping to another sport. NBA and NFL players have gone back and forth about which would fare better if they swapped their respective sports. All-Pro linebacker Micah Parsons recently claimed he could hit for a .200 batting average in a full MLB season, which gave Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow a good laugh.
Appearing on the “Chris Rose Rotation,” Glasnow reacted to Parsons's comments and gave a less optimistic answer than the Dallas Cowboys star.
“I think once he steps in and sees a big league (pitcher) he’d be like, oh, never mind,” Glasnow said. “I think it’s good to have the confidence. I appreciate the confidence. But five hits, maybe.”
Parsons apparently didn’t play much baseball growing up and has never faced anything close to major league pitching. Claiming he could even come close to the Mendoza Line (a slang term for hitting above or below a .200 batting average) is absurd.
Parsons is arguably the best football player on the planet and is soon going to become one of the richest players in the NFL. If he ever tries to pull a Michael Jordan and switch his career path to baseball though, it wouldn’t turn out much better than the basketball Hall of Famer's brief career on the diamond.
Tyler Glasnow thriving with Dodgers
Tyler Glasnow couldn’t have imagined his first season with the Dodgers getting off to a better start. The 30-year-old is firmly in the National League Cy Young Award discussion more than two months into the season and is leading a revitalized Dodgers rotation.
Through 14 starts, Glasnow leads the MLB with 116 strikeouts and is top three in the National League in WHIP and innings pitched. He's also one of 15 pitchers with at least nine quality starts.
Things have been trending down for Glasnow over his last six starts and the Dodgers aren’t doing him any favors. After posting a 6-1 record in his first eight starts, Glasnow is winless since and LA has only one victory in a game he started during that stretch.
Shockingly, the Dodgers failed to score a run in five consecutive starts while Glasnow was on the mound. Naturally, when they scored three runs in Glasnow's latest outing on Sunday, the right-hander allowed five runs across six innings in a loss to the New York Yankees.
The Dodgers took a gamble trading for Glasnow and subsequently signed him to a five-year contract extension before he pitched for them. Despite 2024 being his ninth MLB season, Glasnow has never started more than 21 games nor eclipsed 120 innings in a single season, both thresholds he set in 2023. He's rewarded them spectacularly so far and is pitching his way into elite company this year.
Tyler Glasnow grew up a Dodgers fan, so one can only imagine what it's like for him to star for his childhood team. He's hit a new level with LA and this could only be the beginning of his newfound dominance on the mound.
