Kurt Suzuki has added 15 pounds and talks to Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle about how that extra muscle is going to help keep him from getting fatigued and stuff. Is he ... in the BSOHL? No! That was last year:
So he’s been eating a lot of food in addition to hitting the gym. The article includes the sentence “When I added carbs, I started seeing the weight coming.”
Last year at this time, Suzuki felt he was in the best shape of his life, but he says now that that doesn’t always translate to his sport.
“Triathlon runners are in great shape, but it’s not baseball shape,” he said. “My body fat percentage was under 10, and now it’s 12 - they want it at 12 1/2-15 because I lose so much during the season. You can’t be skin and bones when you’re a catcher.”
So he’s been eating a lot of food in addition to hitting the gym. The article includes the sentence “When I added carbs, I started seeing the weight coming.”
Don’t I know it, Kurt, don’t I know it.
