article_snippet: The 34-year-old player has piled the pounds back on after discovering The 34-year-old player plays worse as a slimmer man.
article_snippet: So after dropping down to a much healthier 122kg, the Major League baseballer has again ballooned to around 136kg.
article_snippet: The six-time All-Star put on around 9kg while recovering from a knee injury, and 5kg more over the winter.
article_snippet: All-Star said: 'I lost a bunch of weight drastically, pretty quick, two years ago. '
article_snippet: Kind of was off balance and didn't know really how his newly toned body was working.
article_snippet: (right) put on around 9kg while recovering from a knee injury, and 5kg more over the winter .
article_snippet: Sometimes you pitch at a certain weight all your life
article_snippet: and then someone has the brilliant idea that you should lose weight because it's putting stress on your knees, you do it, and then you're dealing with something else.'
highlights_snippet: The 34-year-old player says The 34-year-old player felt 'off balance' in The 34-year-old player new, slimmer figure .