Rios a lean, mean batting machine

Few baseball players carry as athletic a look as Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios.

From Babe Ruth to John Kruk, baseball is a sport famous for getting able results from some truly unathletic forms - but Rios is definitely not one of them.

At 6-foot-5, and just a shade under 200 pounds, the 26-year-old is lithe with thick shoulders, a narrow waist and long legs packed with ropy muscles. Put together, the package suggests he could just as easily be a great shooting guard, swimmer or celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars.

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Wells, Rios, Johnson could supplant Bell, Moseby, Barfield as top Jays OF

George Bell, Lloyd Moseby and Jesse Barfield are widely regarded as the best outfield the Toronto Blue Jays have ever had, a potent combination of offensive talent and defensive skill.

Born within a span of 16 days in 1959, the talented trio spent five full seasons and parts of two others together during the 1980s, key factors in the club's rise from expansion-team doormat to American League East powerhouse.

"They played really well together," former teammate Ernie Whitt, now the Blue Jays' bench coach, said Saturday. "Offensively they were outstanding, defensively they did a great job out there for us."

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