With the Dodgers making a visit throughout the globe and again for the Seoul Collection in South Korea, there was lots of planning and serious about how you can fight jet lag, plus how and when to sleep for max relaxation.
In an interview with Foul Territory on Wednesday, reliever JP Feyereisen talked a few sleep specialist – Dr. Chris Winter – who visited the group at Camelback Ranch with a plan of assault for the remaining.
“They instructed us how we’ve got to program our sleep to go there. The true unhealthy man has to return again, that's what I've heard from everybody. That's when the jet lag actually units in,” mentioned the right-hander in Foul Territory. “We’ve sure sleep schedules. They need us to sleep after our first meal [Thursday] after we are on the airplane. I don't know what’s going to work at 9 o'clock, however we are going to strive.”
Contemplating that Shohei Ohtani already excels at hitting and pitching on the similar time to an extent unprecedented in baseball historical past, it's not a lot of a shock that he's additionally superb at sleeping. Dave Roberts on Friday evening on the introductory press convention at Gocheok Sky Dome mentioned Ohtani slept for 11 hours on the group's 14-hour flight to South Korea.
Stephanie Apstein at Sports activities Illustrated wrote about how Ohtani takes it his mattress with him on the highway in the course of the season in an effort to maximise his sleep, one thing he has performed since his days with the Angels.
From Apstein:
Nishikawa additionally makes a transportable mattress, and Ohtani takes it with him on highway journeys. (Properly, it may be extra correct to say that his group's journey secretary takes it on highway journeys.) The entire thing folds as much as concerning the dimension of a briefcase, then opens as much as develop into nearly as formidable because the Ohtani's common mattress. At residence, use the appropriate mattress on a mattress body; on the highway, he makes use of it as a mattress on lodge beds.
This was an ideal story to learn on Friday, which was World Sleep Day.
Hyperlinks
- Talking of Ohtani, the flight to South Korea offered the primary public glimpse of him together with his spouse, former Japanese professional basketball participant Mamiko Tanaka. Andy McCullough at The Athletic has extra.
- The delay within the choice to maneuver Mookie Betts to shortstop, lower than two weeks earlier than opening day, coupled with the centered nature of spring coaching and with many reporters round to ask questions, led to a lot of of columns and articles on the transfer. One got here from Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic, who spoke with Betts concerning the problem of transferring into more and more robust spots alongside the defensive spectrum, the other way of most gamers of their 30s.
- Left-hander Justin Wilson, who exercised an opt-out clause in his minor league contract with the Dodgers on Tuesday, signed a significant league take care of the Reds on Friday.
- Juan Toribio at MLB.com spoke with some Dodgers who’re excited concerning the journey to South Korea, together with shortstop Miguel Vargas, who as a rookie was additionally on the group's roster for the journey to Australia a decade in the past in 2014.
