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Boston Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval arrives in spring training camp Sunday.

(Christopher Smith/MassLive.com)

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Pablo Sandoval arrived here at spring training camp Sunday and said nobody from the Boston Red Sox asked him to lose any weight this offseason.

"No," he said.

However, then-acting manager Torey Lovullo, who has returned to his role as bench coach, said in Cleveland on the final day of the 2015 season that the Red Sox asked both Hanley Ramirez and Sandoval to lose weight before they left the team to return home for the offseason. Lovullo at the time said Ramirez was asked to lost 15-20 pounds but he couldn't remember the amount Sandoval was asked to lose.

Sandoval (see photo above him in camp today) also said he didn't weigh himself during the offseason when asked how much weight he lost this offseason.

"I don't weigh," Sandoval said. "I don't weigh in at all. I just do my work. I do everything I can out there. I don't weigh in at all, all offseason. So I just try to get better -- be in better position. And like I said, be an athlete. So that's what I look like."

He said he feels great.

"I'm happy to be back," he said.