Delino DeShields served as the catalyst to the Texas Rangers’ offense in 2015, when they chased down the Houston Astros to win the American League West.
He found a way to get on base, create havoc with his speed and score runs as Shin-Soo Choo and Adrian Beltre heated up behind him. DeShields, though, wasn’t that player in 2016, bulked up and a step slower, and it cost him his job.
Now fighting for a job on the Opening Day roster, DeShields believes that his back to the player he was in 2015. He transformed his body over the off-season back into the lean physique he carried, and he thinks he has found himself again at the plate.