Freddie Freeman said on September 30, 2026, that his knee is currently pain-free and that he will use the Los Angeles Dodgers' bye week to work daily on his swing before the NLDS.
“I have no pain in my knee right now,” Freeman said. He noted that “my knee's in a good spot” and that he has five days to work on his mechanics, adding, “I'll be hitting BP every day.” Freeman also stated that he expects to have at least 400 swings before live batting practice, where he will face Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers.
Freeman described his physical condition as “probably 100 times worse” two Octobers earlier. He said he is focusing on the NLDS and the present rather than a third consecutive championship: “I'm not thinking about 3P.”
Freeman explained that his father raised him and his two brothers after his mother died when Freeman was 10. He described his father as a single father of three who ran a business with his brother, saying, “he continued to take care of three boys and go to work.”
Freeman said the Dodgers' experience gives them an advantage, stating that “experience is huge in this.” He said the Dodgers have had the highest average age among MLB position-player groups for four consecutive years and that they started in February overseas in each of the two preceding years before winning the World Series.
Freeman plays behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto, while the Dodgers have Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki and Tyler Glasnow in their pitching staff. He ended the session by joking that he would probably block balls into the netting during his work: “Most likely I will.”