Glasnow Shares About Mookie Betts’ Amazing House & Playing with Shohei Ohtani

“I loved being on his team with the Rays. I also love how nasty he is and how good he is in the postseason. All of us are super excited for him.”

“Even when I played with him then (with the Rays), he was always a professional. He’s always very put together as far as baseball stuff goes. He knew what he needed to succeed and stuff. I look at Blake as a pretty mature, put together dude. Ever since I’ve played with him, I’ve always respected him a ton. I think if you go back and look at the video of when (Kevin) Cash takes him out, he’s like ‘what are you doing?!’ I think him and Cash are good friends, they’ve always had a good relationship too. I think they maybe kind of understood each other on like a certain wavelength maybe, and I don’t know if that was his experience with all that, you know.”

“It’s going to be fun. Snell, Ohtani, Yama (Yoshinobu Yamamoto), Bobby (Miller), (Clayton) Kershaw. There’s so many people. It’s going to be insane. It’s going to be a really, really good rotation.”

“To watch Shohei hit on a daily basis and then come back and pitch, to see his whole routine and like how you even tackle that throughout the whole course of a season, that’s going to be the most interesting thing. Like how the training aspect of it, like what you do throughout the week. He’s got it figured out, but it should be interesting for me to see firsthand. To hit the day after you pitch is a lot to juggle. You need to be a very chill, forget things quick type of guy, and I feel he’s perfect for it. His mentality, and the way he is throughout the course of the season, I feel like he’s one of the few people that can even put that on during an entire season.”

“Definitely. When you spend so much time with someone, like, I don’t think anybody on the team looks at Shohei like how everyone else does. From afar, like the farther removed you are, the more the story gets grander. There will be moments in the dugout where he will hit a ball like 119 mph over the stadium and we’ll all just be like ‘what the?’, like people make comments all the time. But I think because you’re around him, on a day-to-day basis, you become so close and think like, ‘that’s Shohei, that’s a guy that’s on our team’. But then he’ll do things to remind you that ‘oh yeah, that guy’s really good.’ Like he’ll do crazy stuff, and a lot of times we’ll watch him do something wild, break a record, or hit a ball really far and we all kind of just look at each other like ‘this guy’s not real.'”

“I wonder if he’s going to have like 50 security guards. I don’t even know if I’ll be able to get video of him. Our security is probably going to hit my phone out of the way. It’s going to be wild. I almost kind of feel bad for him a little bit. I don’t think he feels bad for himself, but I think the fact he gets to go to Tokyo at the beginning of the season, and he’s basically Justin Bieber. It’s going to be tough, but if anyone can not care about it, it’s him.”

“All the stuff in the US is obviously crazy. Seeing what the media was like with the Rays and the coming here to see the Dodgers media. I can only imagine what it’s going to be like going to Japan. I remember seeing something like there’s 15.5 million people in Japan watched the World Series, and it was like 13.9 million in the United States. It’s a smaller place with less people. It’s just like a religion. Baseball’s just crazy – they love him.”

“It was crazy. His house is insane! It’s unbelievable. It’s very customized to him too, I feel like. It seems like a very thought through house, and he likes to do all the extracurricular things like bowling and pickleball and bass. He’s got all the stuff in there. It’s like a 12-year-old’s dream. It’s any man’s dream. It’s all the sports and activities you can think of, plus this sick a** house, and his family’s always around. He’s got a really cool thing going on, and he’s always around the people that he loves, and he’s a very social dude. Looking at that and then having all of us come into his house with his family, it was a really cool experience.”

“It was really cool for him to just open up his doors. We all went and we all hung out. We had been so close that whole entire postseason. I feel like it was a unique situation where we were busing everywhere and hanging out with each other all the time. To have that post celebration made it really, really cool.”