As it turns out, the Dodgers‘ most rational defensive configuration is with their six-time Gold Glove Award-winning outfielder playing in the outfield.
Early last week, Betts was still taking grounders in preparation for his impending return from the injured list. As recently as last Tuesday, manager Dave Roberts said that the Dodgers planned to keep Mookie Betts at shortstop.
Three days later, however, those plans changed.
The shortstop experiment, for the foreseeable future, is over.
On Friday, Roberts announced that the Dodgers would be bumping Betts back out to right field for the first time this year when the superstar returns from his two-month IL stint tonight in Milwaukee. He will play exclusively in the outfield again.
The decision, which Betts described as “kind of a mutual thing,” was divulged after Roberts and Betts had a conversation Thursday night.
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