{"id":12103,"date":"2019-05-13T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/?p=12103"},"modified":"2020-05-03T23:42:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T04:42:39","slug":"the-growing-hype-around-willi-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/milb\/international-league\/the-growing-hype-around-willi-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growing Hype Around Willi Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"

Willi Castro<\/a> is having a big year thus far in 2019.<\/p>\n

The shortstop, who sits at number 13 on Dave Eddy’s 2019 Tigers Top 50 Prospects<\/a> (he’s seven on the MLB Pipeline Top 30 Tigers Prospect list), is hitting .322 with an .855 OPS through May 12 with Triple-A Toledo. However, he is not just playing bigger on the field, he is also physically bigger. According to the weight listings in the media guides to start the season, Castro gained 40 pounds between the start of 2018 and the start of the 2019 campaign going from 165 pounds to 205. While he might not have gained all of that weight, because those listings don’t tend to be entirely accurate, the 22-year-old has made bulking up a priority.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me last year, that I need to gain some weight if I want to play a lot of games,\u201d Castro said. \u201cI live in the Dominican (Republic), and I think that was my mentality. I would just try to work out with a lot of my friends to try to gain a little bit of weight, and come ready for Spring Training. That is what I did and they told me I had a really good weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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