Machado cut pizza, McDonald's from diet: You don't put cheap gas in your Lamborghini

In preparing to transition from third base to shortstop for the 2018 campaign, his last before free agency, Baltimore Orioles star Manny Machado overhauled his offseason fitness regimen, reducing his body fat by roughly three or four percentage points in the process.

In his effort to get lean, though, Machado admitted he had to cut a lot of good stuff out of his diet.

"I love pizza and McDonald's," Machado told ESPN's Jerry Crasnick. "Chicken nuggets and a large fries - that's my thing. For a while, I would drive past a McDonald's and I'd want to stop. But once you change your eating habits and put the right things in your body, you don't even crave it anymore."

Now, in lieu of delivery and drive-through runs, Machado has a personal chef who prepares him lunch and dinner - bone broth and greens are staples, he said - and while he still occasionally snacks on potato chips (sour cream and onion, for the record), he only eats "the baked ones."

"Are you going to put cheap gas in your Lamborghini? I feel like I'm a Rolls-Royce or a Lamborghini - whichever one. It doesn't matter," Machado said. "It's an expensive car, and you're not going to put something cheap in there. Once you put the good stuff in there, you can't go back."

Machado, a three-time All-Star, will earn $16 million in 2018 in his final season of arbitration eligibility, and could command a contract worth upwards of $300 million next offseason.