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Person 1 - Ken Griffey Jr

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...=.jsp&c_id=mlb

With Spring Training less than three weeks away and arthroscopic surgery on his left knee more than three months behind him, Griffey figures to be in much better shape.

"I'm not saying he will look like he did in 1995, but I think he will look better [than last year]," Mariners head athletic trainer Rick Griffin said. "I haven't seen him recently, but he told our general manager that he will be 'ripped.'"

Baseball's active home run leader had surgery to remove a bone spur in October and Griffin said the team's designated hitter is "better now than he was at any time last year.

"He knows how to lose some weight, and when I last saw him, he had lost six or seven pounds."