Roberts says Maeda aims to increase strength, stamina

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — While Yasiel Puig attempts to trim some bulk from his body, teammate Kenta Maeda is trying to add some.

At the Winter Meetings on Tuesday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Maeda is implementing an offseason conditioning program more suited to MLB than to the Nippon Professional League in Japan, where he pitched for eight years before coming to the Dodgers a year ago.

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“That’s one of the things this winter, we talked to Kenta, and he had an outstanding first year,” said Roberts. “But it was more about understanding the toll that it took on him and his body, and to build some mass and to put on some weight to be able to handle the workload.

“So as he was open to the different — to giving them extra days in between certain starts, the extra time. I’d like to think that we can kind of do a little bit less going forward, as he’s already kind of made that jump into Major League Baseball.”

In his first season, Maeda went 16-11 with a 3.48 ERA and …

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