Carrying His Weight.(New York Yankees outfielder Paul O'Neill)(Brief Article)

Yankees' Paul O'Neill Continues To Produce

Veteran right fielder has played on world championship teams five times, and would like to make it six in 2001

THE YELLING, THE EXPRESSIONS OF languish, they can get old quickly, and so the New York Yankees laugh sometimes when teammate Paul O'Neill lashes out at the world after not getting a hit.

When the games end, however, the Yankee right fielder often maintains his dour expression for another hour or so. And it's for that time, as much as anything, that O'Neill really earns people's respect.

"The older you get, like he is, you know ifs got to be a lot tougher," Tino Martinez said of the 38-year-old O'Neill. "It's harder to get going every day, and yet he comes to work and puts the time in and does a great job."

Backup catcher Chris Turner said, "I've been in there with him a couple of times. He's intense in there. He goes hard for about 30 minutes. He knocks himself out."

"There" is the weight room, in Yankee Stadium or visiting ballparks across the continent. There, three times a week during the season, O'Neill subjects his body to a thorough workout after a game.