Hanley

[Jeffy25]

http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/news/...=.jsp&c_id=fla

Bulked up 25 pounds this offseason in preparation of batting third. How will this season end up looking for him?

[filihok]

So much for that improved SS defense

[dickay]

gained 25 pounds in the offseason eh????? paint me suspicious lol.

[filihok]

They might as well change the name of these boards to Steroids Mogul

[reflections]

gained 25 pounds in the offseason eh????? paint me suspicious lol.

Agreed.
This is now the state of baseball.
Its crazy, I remember when Brian Downing bulked up from a winter of weight lifting and noone batted a eye.
Now, everytime I read something like that. You have to wonder.

[dickay]

Agreed.
This is now the state of baseball.
Its crazy, I remember when Brian Downing bulked up from a winter of weight lifting and noone batted a eye.
Now, everytime I read something like that. You have to wonder.

25 pounds is a ton of weight for someone who weighed 200 pounds max last year.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

Or you could, y'know, give guys the benefit of the doubt instead of making accusatory comments every time a guy puts on some weight.

At any rate, I doubt the extra weight will affect his numbers too much. You hear stuff about guys putting on/losing weight in preparation for the season every year around this time and it generally doesn't affect their performance too much. For Hanley, he might hit a few more homers and steal a few less bases, but overall I'd expect his production to be about the same.

[KowboyKoop]

If it was b/c of steroids or anything like that (and I really don't think it was), then he would probably be the stupidest player in the game to try it at this time.



I wonder why he felt the need to gain weight. I mean..he had plenty of power..and I would think that that much of a weight gain would hurt his defense significantly...hurt him on the basepaths maybe...I don't know. Seems wierd.

[dickay]

If it was b/c of steroids or anything like that (and I really don't think it was), then he would probably be the stupidest player in the game to try it at this time.



I wonder why he felt the need to gain weight. I mean..he had plenty of power..and I would think that that much of a weight gain would hurt his defense significantly...hurt him on the basepaths maybe...I don't know. Seems wierd.

i'd bet my lunch there are still alot of players roiding it up during the offseason when testing is minimal. players are allowed to "miss" so many tests if I understand the program correctly and they could easily be "unavailable" during the offseason. They cycle and use in the offseason and during the season cycle off roids and onto HgH which helps maintain without a large dropoff the effects of the offseason roid program.

anyone who's weightlifted knows its not easy to put on 25 pounds of muscle in a few months by simply training, thats all i'm saying. i could see if it was fat, but he's only 25 (matabolism really hasn't changed much in most athletes until late 20's) and he'd have to eat a ton and do nothing but sit on his a$$ all offseason. 25 pounds of fat for a 25 year old in a few months isn't easy either lol.

Its possible I guess....just not easy and definetly eye opening.

[Jeffy25]

If it was b/c of steroids or anything like that (and I really don't think it was), then he would probably be the stupidest player in the game to try it at this time.



I wonder why he felt the need to gain weight. I mean..he had plenty of power..and I would think that that much of a weight gain would hurt his defense significantly...hurt him on the basepaths maybe...I don't know. Seems wierd.

Prolly because he is being moved to the three spot and no longer a leadoff guy....just like players before him, a-rod, bonds etc...they were originally base stealers who had power and eventually just power hitters...he is probably preparing for that

[StreetMedic]

Or you could, y'know, give guys the benefit of the doubt instead of making accusatory comments every time a guy puts on some weight.

Heh. I'm up and down like a damn yo-yo, and believe me, when I'm on the, er, "upswing", it's got nothing to do with steroids...

[Jeffy25]

Maybe i am just nieve....but i see no way in which hanley is juicing...25? seems like a lot, but I don't think it's impossible for someone his size to add in 5 months.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

I lost 20 pounds in two weeks. If I can do that, a top professional athlete like Hanley Ramirez could definitely put on 25 pounds of muscle in five months.

EDIT: When you break it down, that's five pounds a month, at just over a pound a week. Far from impossible.

[Jeffy25]

that and he is only 24-25 years old...that age....not too hard to adjust your metabolism..even if you are a top athlete

[OregonDuck1989]

Football players at the high school and college level put on 25 pounds during the off-season all the time (my friend has to go from 260 to 283 by the time fall practice starts in oh...six months?) so it's far from impossible to do without roids. Professional athletes can work out whenever they want...it's their job.