{"id":480007,"date":"2026-02-17T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T06:30:07","slug":"reds-elly-de-la-cruz-reveals-immense-change-to-his-body-for-2026-mlb-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480007\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; Elly De La Cruz reveals immense change to his body for 2026 MLB season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\/news\/reds-elly-de-la-cruz-reveals-immense-change-body-2026-mlb-season\/d510493372c28c029f5e730a?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Reds&#039; Elly De La Cruz reveals immense change to his body for 2026 MLB season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Reds&#8217; Elly De La Cruz reveals immense change to his body for 2026 MLB season<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elly De La Cruz has made a serious effort to avoid the nightmare summer he had in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Reds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>&#8216; star went a multi-month stretch of last season without hitting a single home run. Given his natural talent and athletic ability, that&#8217;s crazy.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not planning to let it happen again.<\/p>\n<p>This offseason, De La Cruz added 15 pounds, putting him up to 217 pounds right now.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/cleveland-guardians\/news\/how-guardians-jose-ramirez-pace-cleveland-derek-jeter\/4f853a182bc8cfe42b7f0aa7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland&#039;s Derek Jeter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How Jose Ramirez is on pace to become Cleveland&#8217;s Derek Jeter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He put in a detailed upper body plan and also just ate more, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/char_cliff\/status\/2023490637363114179\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to reporter Charlie Clifford;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to reporter Charlie Clifford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/news\/giants-luis-arraez-mlb-perfect-misfit-2026\/4a6c3688716a01c11edf6735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Luis Arraez is MLB&#039;s perfect misfit in 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Luis Arraez is MLB&#8217;s perfect misfit in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This generally has to feel like welcome news for Cincy fans.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz is a special ballplayer, but he also seems to have untapped potential that he can still reach, too.<\/p>\n<p>Adding some muscle and strength almost has to be a good thing when you consider the length of an MLB season. He needs to be able to hold up the whole way, and this should help.<\/p>\n<p>De La Cruz doesn&#8217;t take days off, either, and so the Reds want him at his physical best to ensure he can last throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This certainly should be a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reds&#8217; Elly De La Cruz reveals immense change to his body for 2026 MLB season originally appeared on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,194282,3983,4850,133416,38368,14260,1514,24929,53778,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-480007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-charlie-clifford","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-de-la-cruz","14":"tag-derek-jeter","15":"tag-elly-de-la-cruz","16":"tag-eugenio-suarez","17":"tag-jose-ramirez","18":"tag-luis-arraez","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}