However you choose to term it, baseball players lift a lot of weights and generally turn up for camp in February in good shape.
In other words, they are "yoked," according to David Wells, a guy who most definitely was not yoked during his career.
Wells' description came in a New York Times story about the Yankees' outsize rotation--large not just in salary, but in physical stature.
Reports the Times:
"They’re ginormous,” marveled the beefy Wells, now an instructor at Yankees camp. “I’ve never seen a rotation that big, and that includes me. I mean, I wasn’t yoked like most of these guys; I was just fat. But with that size, it can be intimidating.”
The story notes that players' listed weights can sometimes be off a bit. Wells himself, pitching in at Yankee camp these days, can confirm that.
Wells, who is still almost comically listed as 6-3, 187, said the most weight he ever carried to the mound was 278 pounds — almost none of it muscle.
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