Mookie Betts would not be a starter in the RF upon his return to Dodgers, Roberts has another plan for him

the stellar Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts, has been disabled on the disabled list since June 19, after suffering a fracture in his right rib. The good news is that Mookie has already resumed activities on the pitch and according to a report by Jon Morosi from MLB Network, everything seems to indicate that would return to his team’s lineup before the All-Star Game.

The columnist also disclosed that according to his sources in the Los Angeles team, the 29-year-old patrolman, twice a World Series champion with the Red Sox and Dodgers, would not play his first games as a right fielder, but the manager Dave Roberts would assign him an infield position.

According to Morosi, in a link with television host Lauren Shehadi, also from MLB Network, Betts will play his first games as a second baseman and not in his usual position on the field. The reason, the team wants to take him little by little until his body is 100 percent to make long-range throws from the outfield.

It should be remembered that the Nashville, Tennessee native’s injury occurred during a collision he had with his teammate, center fielder Cody Bellinger.

Ishmael Hernandez

I am a graduate of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara since 2012, graduated as a Bachelor of Communication Sciences. After having been a radio announcer for a few years in the “Perla Tapatia”, I returned to my hometown, Mazatlán, Sinaloa and was hired by El Debate Newspaper in May 2019. My first months in El Debate were writing articles for the vertical: “My Pocket”, however, in September of the same year I became part of the powerful lineup of “Al Bat”, where I am still working as a web journalist. In “Al Bat”, we truthfully present to our readers the most relevant aspects of the baseball world, mainly from the MLB, winter leagues in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and the Asian continent. I am a fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League and the Boston Red Sox in the American League. My big dream is to get to know the Fenway Park stadium, the historic venue of the “Patirrojos”.

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