Joe Saunders is in The Best — and the sexiest — Shape of His Life
Feb 21, 2012, 8:50 AM EDT
Ladies and gentlemen, Indians team president Mark Shapiro:
Ever notice number of Spring Training stories on guys who lost weight or in better shape. Count ‘em.Amusing after 20 yrs of reading them.
— Mark Shapiro (@MarkShapiro) February 21, 2012
No idea what you mean, Mark.
Anyway: They keep on coming, so we keep passing them along. This one: Joe Saunders of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Part of it is pretty conventional:
[Saunders] was a regular at the D-backs’ training facility at Salt River Fields, with help and encouragement from strength and conditioning coach Nate Shaw. ”Not only is it a big year for me, but it is a big year for the team. I wanted to come up here and see what I could do for myself. I feel like I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in heading into a spring training”
But there’s also a hint of TMI for those interested:
The experience of being temporarily on the job market made him stronger and wiser — and maybe even a little bit sexier.
“My wife said my butt has gotten a little bit smaller,” Saunders said with a smile, the result of all the extra work he has done to prepare for this season and beyond.
Try to get that out of your mind as you watch Saunders pitch this year, sports fans.
Games start a week from Friday, people. I predict the BSOHL stuff will dry up by then. But for now, we don’t have much more to go with.
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- kopy - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:01 AM
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Official 2012 BSOHL Roster
Joe Saunders – ARI
Danny Valencia – MIN
Chris Davis – BAL
Brandon McCarthy – OAK
Anthony Swarzak – MIN
Billy Butler – KC
Mike Moustakas – KC
Russell Martin – NYY
Jason Grilli – PIT
Jed Lowrie – HOU
Logan Schafer – MIL
Lance Lynn – STL
Phil Hughes – NYY
Bill Hall – NYY
Yadier Molina – STL
Evan Longoria – TB
Brett Cecil – TOR
Freddie Freeman – ATL
Brian Wilson – SFO
Jason Heyward – ATL
Casey McGehee – PIT
Chris Tillman – BAL
Franklin Gutierrez – SEA
Miguel Olivo – SEA
Miguel Cabrera – DET
Justin Smoak – SEA
Dexter Fowler – COL
Jaime Garcia – STL
Miguel Tejada – FA
Aubrey Huff – SFO
Vicente Padilla – BOS
Carlos Zambrano – MIA
Yonder Alonso – SD
Mark Teixeira – NYY
Dmitri Young – FA
Yoenis Cespedes – OAK
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- proudlycanadian - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:54 AM
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Could you have a special “sexy” sub section that includes Amanda (Mrs. Brandon) McCarthy?
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- phukyouk - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:02 AM
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Where is CC? was’t he in BSOHL last week?
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- kopy - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM
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I didn’t add CC because the only evidence was a tweet from Buster Olney that read:
“CC Sabathia again trained and lost lots of weight this winter, and has had conversations with NYY about doing better maintaining in-season.”
It’s great that he worked out, but I didn’t think that was enough for BSOHL since he just worked out “again” and nothing really suggests he’s in any better shape than he was for other springs. It’s a group decision, but the group also decided earlier that we should maintain a decent standard of qualification for BSOHL.
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- phukyouk - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:34 AM
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thx for the clarification.
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- okobojicat - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:16 AM
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I think we have two full lineups…
Team 1
CF – Guitierrez
RF – Heyward
3B – Longoria
DH – Cabrera
1B – Teixera
LF – Cespedes
SS – Lowrie
C – Martin
2B – HallS1 – Garcia
S2 – McCarthy
S3 – Hughes
S4 – Zambrano
S5 – Cecil
CL – WilsonTeam 2
CF – Fowler
3B – Moustakas
DH – Butler
1B – Alonzo
‘LF’ – Freeman
‘RF’ – Smoak
C – Molina
’2B’ – Valencia – yes, I’d rather have him there than McGehee
“SS” – Tejada
I know we have two 1B in the OF, but its still better than having Huff out there.
S1 – Tillman
S2 – Swarzak
‘S3′ – PadillaTeam 1 could compete, and maybe win the AL East. Team two could probably win about 75 games in the NL Central….God the central is bad.
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- okobojicat - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:17 AM
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well, crap, add saunders to S4 to Team 2
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- Concretepiggy - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:05 AM
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Stupid sexy Saunders!
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- phukyouk - Feb 21, 2012 at 10:01 AM
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done… noone will beat this for a very very long time.
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- pisano - Feb 21, 2012 at 9:34 AM
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Yeah, he looks like a real hose monster, not.
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- 24missed - Feb 21, 2012 at 4:09 PM
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He may be in the BSOHL, but sexiest? Rationale being his butt is smaller? Wow.
I wasn’t aware that men had to have a small butt to be sexy. News to me.
