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Calhoun sticking to weight-loss plan. How much does he want to drop before spring training?

Willie Calhoun has joined a large fraternity of sports reporters, other forms of the couch potato, and anyone who has a little too much fun during the holidays.

He’s on a diet.

The Texas Rangers outfielder has been busy this off-season shrinking himself as he readies for the 2019 season. He said in September that weight loss was a goal, and he’s sticking to it.

The benefits are starting to show, too.

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“I think so far I’ve shed 13 or 14 pounds, and before spring I want to be about 20 pounds down,” he said Monday as the Rangers visit Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth.