Mookie Betts, above working out before a game at Dodger Stadium in July, is getting closer to coming back from a broken hand. One of the greatest defensive right fielders in baseball history, Mookie Betts moved to second base last year because the Dodgers needed him to. But look at the players the Dodgers picked up before the trade deadline, …
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Philadelphia Phillies have decided two-time Most Valuable Player Bryce Harper is the team’s first baseman of the future, which means the franchise also is moving on from slugger Rhys Hoskins. Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said Tuesday the front office and manager Rob Thomson came to the conclusion Harper was the best option at …
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts during a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Monday, April 10, 2023. For all of Mookie Betts’ natural skill, after all, the Dodgers had never really considered a world in which he might regularly play shortstop. “The ability and willingness for Mookie to play second or short,” manager Dave Roberts said, …
