Giants manager Gabe Kapler is a strong man.
He’s so strong, in fact, that some San Francisco players are afraid to challenge him in the weight room.
Mauricio Dubon confirmed as much during a recent interview with MLB Network’s Alanna Rizzo, who asked the infielder if he can lift more weights than his manager.
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“Oh boy,” Dubon laughed. “We tried that last year. It didn’t go well. I was sore for a couple of days, but he got me on that one.”
Not only can Kapler apparently throw some serious weight on the bar, but the skipper is able to outlift his own players no matter what he’s wearing.
“He’s a strong guy,” Dubon said. “The most impressive thing I saw, last year I think it was, I came in at 6:30 [a.m.] for lift and he was lifting, I think, 315 for reps in jeans and boots. So I was like, nah. I’m not going there.”
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It’s no secret Kapler takes his wellbeing seriously. The reigning National League Manager of the Year is known for riding his bike to games at Oracle Park, peeling the breaded skin off of his chicken nuggets and even has his own lifestyle and fitness blog called “Kaplifestyle.”
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That hard-working mentality has resonated with the Giants’ dugout since Kapler arrived in San Francisco prior to the 2020 season. The Giants won a franchise-record 107 games in 2021 en route to their first NL West title since 2012, and the team is looking to repeat that success and then some this year, Dubon said.
Despite losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the NLDS last season, the Giants are “moving forward.”
“... We have the same group of guys. Last year we did the same thing, everybody believed we could do it and it’s the same thing in camp. It’s no different,” Dubon said. “We’ve got a pretty good team and we just go from there.”
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