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Mar 11

‘I took it to heart, man’: The big change that aided Dodgers prospect Edwin Ros – The Athletic

PHOENIX Edwin Ros reported to fat camp in September 2015. Technically, he reported to metabolic camp, but he called it fat camp. Most days, it was just him and the since-traded Willie Calhoun, as the Dodgers tried to get both prospects to lose weight fast. Ros shed about 20 pounds in about 30 days.

It was necessary. The added weight rendered Ros a position-less prospect. And he had once been considered a pretty good defensive player. As recently as 2013, he was a full-time shortstop, a star freshman starter for Florida International University. And he was good enough at it that the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named him the second-best freshman shortstop in America. The best? Alex Bregman.

The only reason I didnt make first team was Bregman, Ros said.

As a sophomore in the spring of 2014, Ros was a full-time second baseman. In the Cape Cod League that summer, he played third base. On one throw across the diamond, he...

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