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, …
Three months in, the amazement has yet to dissipate. “I take a lot of pride in it, how I’ve come a long way,” Betts said this weekend, reflecting on the process while from a visiting locker at Yankee Stadium last weekend. “I was talking to Lux,” Betts said after a recent game, “and I was like, ‘This is the hardest …
Dodgers second baseman Mookie Betts celebrates his third inning home while Angels starting pitcher Griffin Canning and catcher Matt Thaiss look away at Dodger Stadium on Friday. Mookie Betts made his fourth consecutive start in the infield Friday night, a move that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said had more to do with second baseman Miguel Vargas’ month-long slump than Betts’ …
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, …
