Kevin Youkilis is ready to man third base with Adrian Beltre in Texas and Adrian Gonzalez playing first in Boston. "Hopefully Adrian [Gonzalez] is here a long time, and hopefully I'll play at third the rest of my career," Youkilis said. "It would be cool to both start my career and end it there." Youkilis has already appeared at third base 219 times in his career. He made a career-high 63 appearances at third in 2009, 56 of those starts. He owns a career .966 fielding percentage at the hot corner. "No, I never worried because I was always a third baseman," Youkilis said. "In 2008 in the playoffs, all that when Mike Lowell was hurt -- I do it every year. There's some games I play over there in Spring Training. It doesn't worry me. I think it's more excitement that I get to go back to where I came. "I just know if I put myself in the best shape possible that I'm basically going to be able to do all the baseball stuff after. For me, I lift weights, get in condition, get flexible. All the baseball stuff handles itself because I get down a little bit early."