Dave Roberts announced Betts will move positions for the third time this season, this time on a more permanent basis for 2024.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced Friday that Betts, who's made 11 starts at second base and 61 at shortstop this season, will play neither position once he's activated from the injured list Monday.The decision comes days after Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president of baseball operations, said Betts would play a "decent amount" of shortstop upon his return. What changed?"To be quite honest we talk every day about it," Roberts said.
"Each player, wherever they're playing defensively, they've got to feel most confident," Roberts said. "You have to then layer in what's best for the ball club. Where we're at, he is most confident right now in right field versus at shortstop." The argument is keeping Betts at shortstop was to maximize the offense from the position. But Lux and Rojas' emergence as a capable hitters makes that less of an upgrade that perhaps it seemed in March.
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