Rockies’ Zac Veen put on 40-plus pounds after getting sober — and is crushing the ball at spring training

Mihaela Măncilă

Some big lifestyle changes have Rockies prospect Zac Veen tearing it up this spring. Veen, 24, put on more than 40 pounds, going from around 200 to a strong 245 pounds, but the biggest adjustment came outside of the weight room. “Definitely one of the bigger, main things was sobering up,” Veen recently told MLB.com . “I had a pretty big substance abuse problem for a few years. But I’m completely clean and sober. “There were times last year where it was out of hand. Coming home in the offseason,