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New body, new mindset, new Chance: Orioles catcher Sisco the early breakout star of spring

Chance Sisco, the one-time can't-miss prospect, has actually become hard to miss. That wasn't always the case with the 24-year-old backstop as he tried to grow last year from being the Orioles' catcher of the future to the catcher of the present.

He's carrying a stronger frame from his offseason training in Sarasota, and using that to muscle up home runs in the first week of Grapefruit League games. He's drawing a crowd around his locker, once reserved for starting catchers Matt Wieters and Caleb Joseph but now his.

And unlike last year, when he struggled to hold down a major league job and endured the worst season of his young baseball career, he's not slinking back and blending in with the scenery as the day's work bustles on around him.