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P2Daily: A Look at the Swing and Easy Power of Robbie Glendinning

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Earlier this week I looked at the recovery and tough road ahead for Robbie Glendinning, as the Pittsburgh Pirates loaded the farm system with middle infield prospects while he was recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Glendinning would have been able to make up time in Australia during winter ball, but his injury cut short the 2020-21 season and cost him a chance to possibly play winter ball in 2021-22 (Australia didn’t play more than a few games, but that wouldn’t have prevented him from going elsewhere if healthy).

My feature this week focused on the recovery of Glendinning and the off-season progress he was making. That includes adding weight to his 6’2″ frame, while lowering his body fat. The link to that article can be found at the bottom of this update.

Glendinning has shown some of his recovery this off-season through videos of his swing progress. He posted the first video on July 20th, so right now he’s seven months into swinging the bat again. When I last talked to Glendinning, he felt that he could have played in December, if needed, though that would have been as a DH, with his arm still only about 90% full strength right now.

What you see here is Glendinning’s most recent video of length (he has two others that are very short):

Here’s video from his last game action, less than a month before he was sidelined due to his injury. Two home runs, with the second one showing how he has such easy power. It’s also the same guy who added muscle since this video below, going from 200 to 215 pounds

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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