MASHANTUCKET, Conn. — Responding to a challenge from team management, Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers has focused on improving his conditioning throughout the offseason.

Devers, 22, hired a nutritionist and has tried to eat healthier since the end of his first full season in the majors. Though he looks slimmer, Devers is not keeping close track of the pounds he has lost. Instead, he’s taking a holistic approach to his health.

“I feel healthy right now,” Devers said Saturday at the team’s annual Winter Weekend event. I think I’m in a good place. Last year, I had a lot of injuries and I think it was a product of the weight. Thankfully, I feel much better now and I’ve been focusing on it a lot more this offseason."

Sox manager Alex Cora said at last month’s winter meetings that the team was hopeful Devers would come to camp in better shape than he had in previous years. At that point, Cora was impressed with the early returns on Devers' new habits.

“He does an outstanding job in Spring Training of getting himself in shape,” Cora said in Las Vegas. “We don’t want him to do that. We want him to come in shape and just have a regular spring training, and hopefully that’s the case this year.”

Devers was listed at 237 lbs. last season and dealt with hamstring and shoulder injuries throughout the year. He had three separate stints on the disabled list in July and August, missing 17 games in late August with his second hamstring strain in a month.

Devers is hopeful that his efforts to learn more about his body will allow him to avoid the disabled list in 2019.

“Just changing my habits,” Devers said. “Fortifying the muscles so that the shoulder injury I had last year won’t happen again. Or anything for that matter.”

Devers has been working out with his regular hitting coach in the Dominican Republic, reinforcing the adjustments he made throughout his first full season in Boston.

“It was my full season in the big leagues and I think I learned a lot from how to prepare day-to-day and how the pitchers are going to attack me,” Devers said. “Just little things that you pick up with it being your first season in the big leagues.”