in which his win values ranged from 3.4-6.7. This year, at age 34, he looks like he might be declining rather rapidly, but he was a very good player for a while. If Prince has a prime like Ortiz did, crappy defense or not, he would be an incredibly valuable player and Brewers execs would be ecstatic.

True, but when Prince gets into the hypersalary phase of his career in a few years, should the Brewers—who might feel they are pushing their luck with him—trade him away instead of keeping him during his age 30+ injury prone quick-decline phase because of his 300 lb out of shape body? Can’t help thinking about the similar career arc of his father, and how little the junior Fielder has learned from it.

Is this post a request that Prince aggressively diet and exercise on top of his current baseball role to shed his excess weight? He’s at least got the diet part down. I’m sure he could get more cardio or something if his frame’s carrying that much excess despite vegetarianism and playing everyday.

I was really hoping for some stats, maybe a nifty graph or two…

WAR graphs of notably overweight players, or maybe a study on weight as compared to aging curves…

Oh well.

But CC probably hasn’t seen 250 since high school. Whoever recorded Sabathia at 250 for his official playing weight must have lent him a fistfull of helium balloons.

Let me put it this way: the 1/2 season CC was with Milwaukee, Prince Fielder enjoyed a sojurn during which he was only the second heaviest player on the team. Of course, Fielder isn’t 6 foot 7, either.

Some players who I thought were pretty chunky just barely make the bottom of erosen’s list:, if you believe their official height/weights:

Babe Ruth 6-2, 215 = 27.6 (svelte?) 6-2 and 215 is the build of a rather well proportioned althlete, actually. To be honest, GH Ruth had a pretty good physique in his early career (late Bosox, early Yankees), but probably ballooned up to 260-270 later on. He had to have spent most of his career considerably heavier than 215.

Mickey Lolich 6-0, 210 = 28.5 (210? Mickey Lolich? Who publishes these numbers??)

Lius Tiant 5-11, 190 = 26.5 (somehow I remember him heavier, might be wrongly accusing Senor Cigar on this one)

John Kruk 5-10, 205 = 29.4 (again, I suspect a bit skimpy on the scale, but closer to the truth than the others. 220 was probably more accurate.)

but thinking about the few clips I’ve seen of him, I’d say he wasn’t any bigger than 250ish. Fielder would make him look skinny.