Freddie Freeman is perhaps the most underrated of the Dodgers’ Big Three — it’s easy to be underrated when you bat after Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts. But he’s probably the most tried and true of any of them.
He’s the oldest of the three and is going into his 16th major league season, and he was also the key to the Dodgers’ World Series win last season.
The legend of that run only grew when it was revealed after the season was over that Freeman was playing through a broken ankle and a broken rib, but he still managed to hit a record six home runs in consecutive postseason games.
Freeman’s been progressing well from two surgeries and even swung a bat before he was supposed to at the beginning of Dodgers spring training.
He made his Cactus League debut on Feb. 27 against the Rockies (and his first at-bat resulted in a 2-2 single) and then started in two consecutive games on Saturday and Sunday.
He got five at-bats altogether and collected two hits, both homers.
Freddie Freeman HRs on back-to-back days for Dodgers reassures any lingering fears after two surgeries
Back-to-back days with a homer for Freddie Freeman! #SpringTraining pic.twitter.com/83U5v0fPUh
— MLB (@MLB) March 2, 2025
It’d be sort of foolish to ever count Freeman out at this point.
While even Ohtani and Betts had their ups-and-downs last season (Betts slumped hard in June and then missed months with a broken hand and Ohtani didn’t really contribute in the postseason), Freeman has always been rock solid.
If the guy was willing to play through an ankle injury (that he literally had to tape together) as well as shooting pains in his side and was able to become the World Series MVP? There’s little reason to worry about him.
Freeman said early on in spring training that he was confident he’d be able to travel with the team and play in the upcoming Tokyo Series, and he’s certainly made that clear already.
He did note that he’s going to have to take it easy on the running a little for the first few months, but otherwise he looks pretty unstoppable.
