March 7th, 2025 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka When 35-year-old Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman went down with a sprained right ankle on September 26 of last year, a good many Dodgers fans feared the worst for the eight-time All-Star and future first-ballot Hall of Famer. Although the Villa Park, CA native and second-round draft pick in 2007 by the Atlanta Braves out of El Modena High School in Orange, CA somehow managed to play through the pain in the postseason (including the World Series), he required surgery in December for “…debridement and removal of loose bodies.”
As such, a good many Dodgers fans thought for sure that the (now) two-time World Series champion would be out at least to begin the 2025 regular season.
Nope.
Not only has Freeman appeared in four of the Dodgers 16 Cactus League games thus far this Spring, he’s batting a Freddie-Freeman-like .363 (4-for-11), with two of those four hits being home runs.
Freddie’s second blast of the Spring came in Thursday’s 8-4 win over the Texas Rangers at Camelback Ranch, a towering opposite-field bomb to left field, just as his first one was.
(SportsNet LA)
Yep. Freddie’s all better.
Play Ball!
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The slow start to Freddie playing defense this spring appears to have worked to his advantage. Extra time on the “T”, cages, and batting practice seems to have opened even more power potential. Good for Freddie, he doesn’t have to run as hard.