How Mookie Betts’ Position Switch Could Change Baseball History Forever
Yount is one of 91 players to man both shortstop and the outfield for 100 or more MLB games. The vast majority are utility types – Bill Hall, Mark DeRosa, Omar Infante – and 25 made at least one MLB All-Star Game. Just about everyone who made a clean switch did so with shortstop on the front end, like Tatis Jr., Ian Desmond and Jurickson Profar. (By the way: Four of the 91 currently play for the Dodgers, if you want to seek meaning in that.)
To find anyone doing anything like what Betts is attempting, you have to dig deeper. Only 11 players on record have become primary shortstops for the first time in their fifth major-league season or after. And Betts is only the second to make that jump from the outfield. The first was Howie Shanks of the 1917 Washington Senators (aka Grifs). Shanks was less productive in his 14-season career than Betts was in 2023.
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