Yasmany Tomas speaks English about as well as Nate Shaw speaks Spanish – that is, not well. But throughout the offseason, the Diamondbacks left fielder and the team’s strength and conditioning coordinator would get together, sometimes three days a week, sometimes five days, and they would do anything and everything, so long as they were staying active.
There was jumping rope, boxing, cross-training. They would run in sand, play football, hike the San Tan Mountains.
“We couldn’t understand each other,” Tomas said through translator Ariel Prieto, “but we had a lot of fun.”
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They also say they saw real results.