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WEST PALM BEACH Francisco Cervelli Jersey , Fla. (AP) — lift weights every day during spring training in years past.After a season when he missed six weeks with a back injury that lingered for the rest of the year, he has altered his preparations. Houston’s shortstop has vastly cut back on everything from swings to how many sprints he runs in hopes that taking it a bit easier in February and March will lead to better health in September and October.“I overworked during spring training and it showed up midseason with all the other workload,” Correa said. “Obviously my back getting hurt, it came from all that work. It was way too much. This year I’ve laid off a little bit of some of the things I did last year and I’m trying to work smarter.”That means limiting his swings to no more than 30 at a time and about 85 in a day and cutting his weightlifting to three times a week.“I’m still working hard, it’s just not like I did back then,” he said. “It’s just being smart about it.”He also is more cognizant of taking care of his back away from baseball, too, and thinks that will help him avoid similar problems in the future.“That’s one thing I learned from last year is to be conscious of the workload and everything that I do on and off the field,” he said. “When I’m lying at home on the couch I try to sit right and get a good posture. Nobody needs to tell me now. I know.”Correa hit .268 with 13 homers and 49 RBIs the first half of last season. But he never got over a pinched nerve in a disk in his back in the second half and batted just .180 with two home runs and 16 RBIs.His struggles led to ending the 2018 season with the lowest batting average of his four-year career (.239) and his fewest hits (96), doubles (20), homers (15) and RBIs (65).Manager AJ Hinch believes the down year will provide a bit of extra motivation for the always-driven Correa.“I don’t think many people are doubting him, but he’s going to want to prove the doubters wrong,” Hinch said. “He’s a huge part of this franchise and guys like to prove it.”Correa hadn’t experienced much adversity in the majors before last season after winning rookie of the year in 2012 and developing into one of Houston’s top players in the two seasons after that. But he did recall a time he didn’t play to his standards and the haters came after him in full force.“When I got picked first in the draft and I went to rookie ball I was obviously tired after that whole process and I didn’t perform as well http://www.piratesfanproshop.com/authentic-josh-bell-jersey ,” he said. “And people were like, ‘Oh he’s going to be a bust, blah, blah, blah.’ And I ended up making it to the league in a couple of years and the rest is history.”The 24-year-old, who was an All-Star in 2017, has never lacked in confidence. And that hasn’t changed simply because of one subpar year. He is determined to out-do his 2017 season, when he set career marks by hitting .315 with 24 homers and 84 RBIs.“It’s just a bounce-back year of Carlos being Carlos,” he said. “Do what I’ve always done. I want to be able to continue the good defense that I played last year, and put up monster numbers at the plate, better numbers than I put up in 2017.”Correa has looked good so far in Grapefruit League play, with four hits in five games after collecting two more on Sunday against the Nationals. Hinch said along with being healthy, Correa has learned to be more selective about the advice he takes concerning his game.“He’s got a complete understanding of the game and what he needs to do to be good http://www.piratesfanproshop.com/authentic-josh-bell-jersey ,” Hinch said. “But he will tinker. He would listen to anybody that offers advice and I think his filter has gotten a little bit better as he’s gotten older or more mature to what’s really important to help him.”Injuries slowed the Astros in a loss to the Red Sox in the ALCS last season, preventing them from returning to the World Series. Now that Correa and 2017 AL MVP Jose Altuve have put their injuries behind them, Correa is excited to see what this team can do in 2019.“I feel like we have the best team in the league hands down,” he said. “We’ve just got to be able to go through the whole season and be healthy.” Can Willians Astudillo make the opening day roster?"The Marwin Gonzalez signing was a pretty dang good move in a vacuum. However nothing happens in a vacuum, (except literally everything if you zoom out far enough) and his inclusion means someone else’s exclusion. That exclusion has a pretty good chance of being utilityman/catcher and international sex icon, Willians Astudillo.Here’s some cursory roster crunching for you: Erasing the (probable) 13 pitchers and the starting lineup we have an entire 3 spots left. New friend Marwin seems a lock for the utility infielder slot, and carrying an actual fourth outfielder seems like maybe a good decision. That leaves the backup catcher spot.“But Tawny, Astudillo is a catcher!” you may have just yelled at your computer or phone. I can’t hear you though, that’s not how technology works. You can not stop this. Everyone’s favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle certainly CAN catch, but is his utility ability (say “utility ability” aloud, it is super fun!) enough to push him past probably backup Mitch Garver?The short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes, and we’re going to go with the long answer because I still have jokes to make. Let’s take a look at a few categories.Wins Above Replacement:Using straight bWAR from last season, Astudillo actually beat out Garver by an entire .1 wins. In fact Wild Wild Willians racked up his 1.0 WAR in a measly 97 plate appearances Corey Dickerson Jersey , 238 fewer than Mitch. However, that’s just, like, the past MAN. Let’s take a look at some projections. ZIPS loves Astudillo, in fact it projects him at 2.0 WAR and the most playing time among the catchers. His projected WAR doubles probable starter Jason Castro’s and dwarfs the 0.7 projected for The Garve.Point Astudillo.Defense:For some reason I always think Astudillo is a mediocre catcher, but that must just be me being an idiot, because Astudillo performed reasonably well in his (admittedly small) time behind the plate. He caught base thieves at a 33% clip (to Garver’s 18%) which is above the 28% league rate for the year.He also let zero balls pass, which is a very admirable talent. Astudillo also overshadows Garv in pretty much every fielding metric one can find.Point Astudillo.Minor League Options:Both Garver and Armored Armadillo Astudillo have minor league options left. However Astudillo has 3 to Garver’s 2, giving the Twins more future flexibility if Garver starts the year as the backup ball catchman. Point Garver.Pitching?????:Why not? I’m sick of pretending I’m good at real analysis! Both the catch boyz pitched one inning in relief last year. Garver’s inning was a real beauty, giving up one hit and no runs. Astudillo however gave 5 runs on 5 hits and 2 dingers. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT YOU GUYS STOP LAUGHING AT ME.Point Garver.The Tie Breaker:We once thought such intangibles to be immeasurable, but I’m here to introduce to you my new metric, CAR. Curvature Above Replacement.According to an unquestionably scientific google search, the average weight of a major league baseball player is 207lbs Austin Meadows Jersey , while the average height was 6’2”. This gives the platonic body of a Major Leaguer a BMI of 26.6. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a somewhat quick and dirty value derived from mass and height to determine if a single person falls into various categories like underweight, healthy, and overweight. Overly high and very low BMI have been linked to various health issues, and some European countries have even banned the usage of fashion models with egregiously low BMIs in certain instances to help combat anorexia. The MLB average BMI of 26.6 is actually slightly in the “overweight” category, likely due to the unusual amount of muscle pro athletes build up. However as Astudillo and Bartolo Colon have proven: We like ‘em even bigger! The 6’1” and 220 pound Garver snags a BMI of 29 and thus a CAR of 2.4. The 5’9 Astudillo is officially 225 pounds, and while that seems a bit off, we’ll roll with it. This gives him a 5.6 CAR. An amazing value!Astudillo wins!Conclusion: Astudillo is the clear winner here, and the poster boy for Curvature Above Replacement. Will he actually break camp with the team? I have no idea. I just wanted to analyze his curvature as a joke after saying in the very last thing I wrote that I did not want to do that. With Jason Castro being signed to real human money and Astudillo having more options than Garver, it wouldn’t be a total surprise to see Willy Astudillo and the Chocolate Factory start the year in Rochester.(The real loser of the Marwin signing is likely Ehire Adrianza or Jake Cave, btw.)Make sure you don’t take all this talk of body weight too seriously! You are beautiful however you are and the only one who can decide the healthy weight for you is you!