{"id":30908,"date":"2025-03-06T03:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T03:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=30908"},"modified":"2025-03-06T03:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T03:41:06","slug":"shocking-reveal-dodgers-star-admits-he-was-only-60-healthy-during-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=30908","title":{"rendered":"SHOCKING REVEAL: Dodgers Star Admits He Was Only 60% Healthy During World Series!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrapper_1vgzeyt\">\n<div class=\"style_1q03211\">\n<figure class=\"base_1ruub6q\" data-mm-type=\"image\"><picture class=\"base_1emrqjj\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"base_1emrqjj\" title=\"Oct 25, 2024; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts (30) relieves pitcher Michael Kopech (45) in the ninth inning against the New York Yankees during game one of the 2024 MLB World Series at Dodger Stadium. 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Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images \/ Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inStoryContainer_1r009zu\">\n<div class=\"wrapper_qe1qt7\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_jrho1fvkb\">The Major League Baseball season is already long, but add in a World Series run and it becomes even longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_m1d6p86rt\">Players are determined to play through the pain to capture the title, and that&#8217;s how October played out for Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Michael Kopech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ofcfpn5tc\">Kopech was acquired from the Chicago White Sox at the trade deadline and proved to be one of the most important pickups of the year considering the Dodgers only had three starting pitchers in the postseason. The team relied on the bullpen and Kopech recorded some of the team&#8217;s most important outs during the World Series run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_s9wwb2bkb\">However, Kopech was dealing with forearm inflammation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_kymsuy3d8\">While he was tied for the lead with 10 postseason appearances, the right-hander revealed recently that he was only feeling 60 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_zv4a0phhb\">\u201cI think a lot of people look at the results of what you\u2019re putting out there as how you feel,\u201d\u00a0Kopech\u00a0said to the LA Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_o5l1uj924\">\u201cI was still able to throw 100 mph in the last days of the season, so that\u2019s great,\u201d Kopech added. \u201cBut it was a lot more effort to throw that hard, and it was a lot more intensity and masking things. 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The pitching staff was never fully healthy, and Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, Max Muncy, Gavin Lux, and Will Smith all dealt with their own ailments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_utyd5baiy\">\u201cWe all wanted to win,\u201d Muncy said. \u201cBut we were all going through something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_04sni8tqt\">Whatever the Dodgers were going through, they leaned on each other to get through it. Once they came from behind in the National League Division Series to defeat the Padres, they were on a mission and weren&#8217;t going to let anything get in their way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_65595x0ph\">\u201cBaseball, it\u2019s a battle of attrition,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cYou lose players and guys are playing banged up. 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