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Tyler Glasnow says he’s hopeful he can resume his throwing program “soon,” a small but notable shift in tone after days of frustrating non-progress in his recovery from back spasms, per staff reporting at DodgerBlue.com. Glasnow’s initial stint on the 15-day injured list has stretched into a much longer absence than anyone — the pitcher included — initially expected.

Part of what made this so frustrating early on was the precedent. Glasnow dealt with a similar back issue last season and was back on the mound just three days later. That quick turnaround gave both him and the organization confidence that this current bout of back trouble wouldn’t be a prolonged ordeal. That confidence has not aged well. The recovery has dragged on well past that initial 15-day window, and Glasnow has been stuck in a holding pattern — unable to throw, unable to build back up, unable to give the Dodgers any kind of concrete timeline for his return.

Glasnow, when healthy, is one of the most dominant arms in baseball. His fastball-slider combination is elite, and he’s been a cornerstone of our rotation since arriving in Los Angeles. The 6-foot-8 right-hander has always carried some injury risk — his history includes Tommy John surgery and various soft-tissue setbacks — but the back issue is a different animal. It’s not structural in the traditional sense, but the fact that it’s lingering this long without a clear ramp-up path is genuinely concerning. Back spasms can be maddeningly unpredictable. Sometimes they resolve overnight. Sometimes they linger for weeks and become a recurring nuisance. We seem to be dealing with the latter scenario.

The word “hopeful” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, and I want to be honest about that. This isn’t Glasnow saying he’s throwing bullpens or facing hitters. This is him saying he thinks he might be able to start throwing again in the near future. That’s a step forward from his last update, where he acknowledged he wasn’t really making any progress at all, but it’s still a long way from getting him back on a major league mound. Once he does resume throwing, he’ll still need to build up his pitch count, likely throw at least a couple of rehab starts, and prove the back is holding up under game conditions. We’re probably looking at a multi-week ramp-up at minimum, assuming everything goes smoothly from here.

For the Dodgers, every day without Glasnow puts more strain on a rotation that’s already been juggling absences and workload management. The front office has built enough depth to weather short-term gaps, but a prolonged Glasnow absence changes the calculus — both for how they manage the regular season workload and, more importantly, how they think about potential trade deadline additions. If Glasnow’s timeline keeps slipping, the urgency to add pitching at the deadline goes up considerably. For now, this is cautiously positive news compared to where things stood a few days ago, but let’s see him actually pick up a ball before we exhale.

Source(s): Staff (DodgerBlue.com) | First reported: June 18, 2026 1:01 PM UTC

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