On Mike Trout's weight gain and expected 2013 performance

There has been much ado made of the recent revelation that Mike Trout packed an additional ten to fifteen pounds of muscle onto his frame over the course of the off-season. One reporter stated that he now looked more like an NFL fullback, whereas last season he looked more like an NFL running back. Others have nicknamed him "Fat Mike" (ostensibly based upon the lead singer/bassist for the band NOFX) and "Beefy Trout".

This size change understandably has people concerned; a common adage in a non-contact sport like baseball is that one can get "too bulky" to be an impact player. Here is where I must disagree, and I elaborate after the jump.

The off-season's biggest winners, 2012-13: #s 5-1

Continuing with my list of the off-season's biggest winners, we have the top five, after the jump.

The off-season's biggest winners, 2012-13: #s 10-6

The 2012-13 off-season has been chock full of surprises, so it is clearly a difficult task to analyze what were ten of the better moves of the off-season. To make this task slightly easier, I have chosen to analyze the biggest winners of this past off-season. The aim was to focus on individuals, but there were a few teams that upgraded so significantly that it was impossible to exclude them from such a list.

With that in mind, I've ranked my ten biggest winners. After the jump, the bottom five.