When the Los Angeles Occasions reported that Mookie Betts had a “personal” assembly with Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman following the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies, it made headlines.
Seems, it was simply a boring dialog between Betts and his bosses.
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Betts instructed reporters — together with Fabian Ardaya of the Athletic — that he went into Roberts’ workplace on Monday to reiterate how good his swing feels proper now.
“For what it’s price, the door was open as media entered final evening so everybody noticed Betts in there, and it isn’t an unusual incidence for a participant or coach to be in there,” Ardaya wrote on X.
Roberts then added some extra context, telling reporters that Betts is in his workplace “on a regular basis.”
“Mookie pops into my workplace on a regular basis,” Roberts mentioned. “We have been simply speaking about his swing. I wished him to examine in with me about the place he’s at, sure checkpoints as we get by the season and that was a check-in.”
He added: “I hope an excessive amount of wasn’t fabricated from that.”
Roberts additionally mentioned the crew has not mentioned proper subject with Betts in any respect this season, persevering with to reaffirm the crew’s dedication to Betts being a shortstop.
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Betts has graded out as an above common defender at shortstop this season. Whereas he struggled by the worst offensive stoop of his profession, he lastly seems to be turning a nook, hitting .333 over his final 12 video games with an OPS of .889.
The Dodgers clearly haven’t considered transferring Betts out of shortstop and into proper subject. Roberts did say after Monday’s recreation, although, that Teoscar Hernandez has “acquired to get higher” in proper subject transferring ahead.
“He’s acquired to get higher on the market,” Roberts mentioned after the sport. “There’s simply no solution to put it. I do know there’s effort — it’s not an absence of effort. However the factor is, we’ve simply acquired to get higher. We do. I don’t know what else to say.”
“He’s acquired to maintain placing within the work to proceed to get higher,” Roberts added. “It’s simply a type of issues that, the protection is an enormous a part of postseason baseball and profitable baseball. So yeah, he’s simply acquired to proceed to get higher.”
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