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Red Sox ask Hanley Ramirez to drop '15, 20 pounds'

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CLEVELAND -- David Dombrowski suspects that Hanley Ramirez decided it would be a good idea last winter, since he was moving to the outfield, to show up in Red Sox camp as a bulked-up version of himself, all the better to display the power he believed should come with the position.