Mookie Betts comments on switching to second in the batting order, while the Dodgers get good news about Brusdar Graterol.
For most of the last five seasons, the Dodgers have built themselves around Mookie Betts. When Betts returns to the Dodgers' lineup from a broken hand next week, however, he’ll be the one moving in the batting order for someone else. As he has done since Betts’ injury in mid-June, Shohei Ohtani will remain the Dodgers’ leadoff hitter next week. Betts, for the first time in almost three years, will bat second. 'I mean, I can’t say I’m better than Shohei,” Betts quipped Wednesday.
” However, Betts’ enjoyment level playing the infield the last couple of years — after winning six Gold Gloves as a premium right fielder for most of his career — hasn’t gone unnoticed by the club, either, with Roberts confirming it was a factor in the team’s decision to keep him at shortstop for the time being. “The overarching, most important part of this is you have to put the best players in the best positions that are best for the team,” Roberts said.
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