Russ Dorsey

I think the other thing when it comes to Matt Shaw playing all these positions is they have a lot of guys that play every day at short.

Obviously, Dansby is going to play between 155 and 160 games a season.

Nico is going to play between 150 and 160 games a season.

So you're not going to have him there.

Now you bring in Alex Bregman.

It's not like...

He's gonna take, and that's away from Alex Bregman, who you just brought in as a free agent.

And Alex is probably gonna play between 145 games and 150 games at third base.

The one thing with Bregman is there could be some days where maybe you DH him, right?

But...

He is also a good defender at third base.

So it's not like you have that situation where nobody's a good defender and say, ah, well, he's above average there so we could just plug him.

So, yeah, they're going to have to do some work to find him at bats.

But for him, it behooves him to play all these positions or at least attempt to play all these positions to get himself in the lineup.

I think of a guy like Kike Hernandez who has made a career at whatever Dave Roberts needs him to do that day, he's going to do it.

Hey, I need you to play left today.

He's going to play left.

I need you to play center.

He plays center.

I need you to come in and play third base defensively and come in for Max Muncy late in games.