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- The Dodgers made Mookie Betts their starting shortstop. This decision may seem unconventional, but history shows that teams have successfully repositioned players to optimize their offensive prowess, sacrificing defense. The Dodgers' strategy revolves around fitting their top hitters into the lineup, backed by solid analytics and a history of smart positioning. While Betts's transition to shortstop is unconventional, his athleticism and the team's expertise in player placement suggest it could be a game-changer.
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For the last week before every game Miguel has been working with Mookie on SS for around 200 ground balls a day before the game statrts. It shows a lot about the Los Angeles Dodgers. They are a Baseball team.
Mookie was drafted as an infielder ss /2b he knows how to play anywhere you need him - he is an athlete first that plays the game. anywhere he’s needed.
Mookie played every position when he was younger. He literally played on two teams in middle school just so he could play more.
It’s almost like he moved to the outfield for Dustin Pedroia…. 🤯🤯
For real baseball team that can’t win a championship lol
Nah they a football team breh
Dodgers turned Kenley from a catcher to their closer. Nothing new for the guys in blue.
still the wildest position transition in recent memory
I did not knew that and that's crazy.
That is crazy.
I played against Mookie growing up and in high school. I can assure he was an elite shortstop in high school so it’s no surprise he transitioned back to infield seemlessly. Excellent range with a great arm. Love the video!
I wouldn't call it seamless. Granted it's been a week since ive looked at the stats but last i checked, the defensive metrics have Mookie as one of the worst starting shortstops in all of baseball so far.
@@unkledoda420 i wouldn't call it seamless either because every MLB baseball has at least one
Most MLB prospects played shortstop or catcher in high school. It doesn't say anything about how they'll do there as a pro.
@@spookyshark632 right. Considering my point was it was not surprising they chose to move him because he had the prior experience and skill set, I think the replies are missing the point. I played against him from the time we were about 13 to when he played at Overton High school in Nashville. He was and has the skills to be elite. He had so much range that he basically played short left field and it was almost an automatic out every time. Never really saw anything like it at the time. So my point is, even if he’s struggling a bit now, he can still be elite with some time and reps.
Can’t wait until shohei moves to 2nd next year
It’s a shame you didn’t mention Daulton Varsho who went from being an average defensive catcher to one of the best centerfield defenders in the sport
That’s a good one. I thought about that after I made the video
@@analyticswithchris as a big outfield defense fan the fact that on a rate basis he’s one of the best centerfield defenders since 2020 is incredible to me
I was just going to say funny how Tatis jr gets the recognition that he deserves but Daulton, playing on a team that made the post season, who also had amazing defensive performances got… nothing.
Also Cody bellinger going from first base to gold glove center fielder
Did you know - Padres GM AJ Preller believes in one major thing: Shortstops are the best athletes on the field, and so can transition to any other position. Preller takes that to the extreme. Machado originally was a Shortstop who moved to 3rd. Tatis originally was a Shortstop who moved to RF. Cronenworth originally was a Shortstop who moved to 2nd and eventually moved to 1st. Bogarts for a good amount of his career was a Shortstop before being moved back to 2nd this year. Kim originally is a Shortstop who was transitioned to 2nd for a time before going back to SS. Merrill, their soon-to-be Star Rookie, originally was a Shortstop all his life and transitioned to LF for 2 games in Spring Training this year before moving to CF where he made the team and is thriving so far this year. The Padres have 6 players in their everyday lineup that can play Shortstop, and could’ve had more since CJ Abrams was traded in the Soto trade to Washington- he’s a Shortstop who played some CF for the Padres.
And who knows what Preller might be hiding down in the Padres Farm System that they can plug from the SS position.
Ohh.. kim. So underrated. I love how the guy plays
profar came up as a shortstop with the rangers too! that’s a cool pattern i hadn’t noticed
Well...I'd be willing to bet that if you go down the line of MLB players in general...most of the ones that make it to the bigs were originally shortstops or center fielders or both. That's where all the best players play
Did you know that in little league we know that shortstops are the best athletes on the field? That’s why we put them there.
@@mak10123so many of them grew up as multiple positions/pitchers and fielders. Just thinking about how many of them were elite pitchers in high school is crazy
Mookie has 3 300s in bowling, has won 2 World Series with 2 different teams. This guy is a winner period! Great move!
0:37 I love the blue grid transition screen. It reminds me of the 90s. Like the Home Improvement intro or something 😆
This is the first time I have enjoyed hearing anything about analytics. Admittedly, I don't understand all the various stats, and I hate the idea of viewing a walk as a reward for the batter rather a penalty for the pitcher, but if this is how analytics can be used to deepen the game within in the game while keeping the simplicity and surface level fun digestible, then that is really cool
Pretty much every complaint about analytics comes from people who don't understand analytics.
Stats are definitely an intimidating thing to read into, but once you understand them it totally brings watching the game to another level IMO
@@ratk_ Intimidation is certainly a factor for me--probably bigger than I care to admit to myself--but there is also the realization that analytics leads to uniform efficiency. When you apply mathematical analysis to a thing it tells you that x is better than y and z is better x, and that double-z is more optimal than anything else. Once things have been broken down to that level, and are accepted and adopted, then individuality is lost, and you are no longer watching people play a game, but humans that have been selected exclusively because they can perform the most optimal actions better than everyone else--turning humans into machines. Once that point has been achieved, the only way for anyone else to enjoy playing the sport (at the highest level) is to alter the rules, invalidating the optimized math, but to do so effectively destroys the game--by the game, I don't mean the game itself, but the line that connects the game's history to the present, and through the present to the future. I know that sounds silly, and it's not something that is really quantifiable, or even something most people will think about, much less care about, but it is something that is real in spirit--at least to me--and something I don't want to see lost (and yes, I understand such things have occurred already, at least to a degree, which is why people say things like "the live ball era", but none of those kinds of changes have limited access to whole swaths of humanity in the same way analytics have the potential to do).
As a dad worrying about where my son is put season in. Season out. Yall are right. Just make sure he’s on field. Make sure he can bat. 🦇 thanks.
no. just Make sure he can bat.
@@baigpigpig yup. Working 💪. One of the best hitters rn. Gonna keep it going.
Position still important. Only key here is Mookie is a genius
Seriously Mookie is like a swiss combat knife
@@DingleberryStudios69My favorite game at the arcade growing up was Mortal Army.
Good content keep it up!
First time watching one of your videos. Very impressive, and I agree!
I will consider subbing that was a great vid
Great video bro
AWESOME KIM
That Castellanos defensive shift stat was incredible. You earned an insta-sub from me for that one
Listening to this video of all of these seemingly hairbrained ideas work our just makes me cry in the corner as a SF Giants fan who has seen these types of moves blow up in our teams face ever since 2021 ended.
The "fuzzys friend" under Brysons name got a chuckle from me lol fuzzy always saying my friend is pretty funny too.
Your my new favorite baseball CZcamsr😂
Bryson Scott fuzzy friend lol😂
So after 100 years they found out that you better put your best players on the grass? That is why those managers earn the big bucks!
Dusty couldn't figure that shit out in 2023, so apparently it's still considered goat level knowledge only.
Yea! Defense only matter when you are in the playoffs and the good teams expose your week defense. I keep seeing videos say defense doesnt matter. Yea defense doesnt matter until it does. Be careful what you wish for. The ball may get hit right to Betts in the world series and those are usually the moments we find out if this plan really works.
Defense doesn’t have slumps like offense does.
I mean you can have amazing defense and it doesn't mean anything if you can't get runs on the board, and if your pitcher throws a home run or two
@@colmecolwag That's what differentiates baseball from all the other major North American professional team sports. All a good defense in baseball can do is prevent being scored on. A good defense in the other sports can result in immediate turnovers and counterattack for scoring, or, such as in football, the ability to put points on the board directly.
Robin Yount won MVP at both shortstop and centerfield.
I thought back in the day the Pirates should have retained Neil Walker and move him to 1b.
Max Scherzer playing CF is going to be wild
We’ll see in the playoffs. Pitching & defense will always reveal itself when it matters most
all sports have evolved. Positions are getting less specialized since players are getting more skillful at their crafts, we see this in basketball and football also. Running backs who can catch, quarterbacks who can run, recievers who can block.
I find it hard to believe that the best possible fielder hasn’t always been recognized as the best possible fielder. The fact we just move catchers to 1st base kind of exposed this years ago.
Yordan Alvarez to first base?
Thanks for using Defensive Runs Saved (the stat invented by my employer, Sports Info Solutions)
Deceptive title. Positions absolutely do matter. They're defined, and certain positions matter significantly more than others. Those positions like catcher, SS, 2b, and CF almost always have the best athletes on the team. Mookie fits right into that mold. You cannot put someone like Marcell Ozuna, for example, in center and say his positioning doesn't matter.
You're going to get a lot of flack for your title and it will be deserved
and clicks tho
When they got rid of Black players the athleticism declined. That’s why they had the steroid era.
@@davruck1 wrong video for this comment 😂
@@gregorymorhardt3262 it’s true. Defense is atrocious in MLB. Good athletes like Mookie can field every position. The problem is MLB is suffering from declining athleticism. That’s why the game became boring. 🥱
Did you mention that when Betts was a kid, his uncle Terry Shumpert, trained Betts all the posistions, because Shumpert was a utility player and played many positions-- so no, not a problem playing all positions for Betts, since he was taught by a journeyman former utility major leaguer, that's about what it takes to get to the majors, quite an advantage, you do have to learn that when your young, because it's not easy.
Casual fans love HRs and hard throwing pitcher. The result was MLB focusing on big strong guys who hit the Baseball +400’ but have suffer a huge disparity in K to BB ratio. And, more guys than ever are throwing +95 mph on the bump. Well, more pitchers are suffering career altering or career ending injuries. Personally, I’d love to see the game go back to highly athletic and skilled players. It’s cool to see big guys hit +400’ bombs or throw +95 mph, but I’d rather see more skilled guys play smart high-level baseball.
mookie is also a freak of nature
Man as a Red Sox fan this really hurts…we could really use a shortstop…
If players can play more than one position, the manager has more flexibility bringing subs for injuries or pinch hitting.
My Atlanta Braves were doing this sort of thing 20 years ago… I know you remember Chipper Jones, not to mention Smoltz after Tommy John surgery. Just sayin 😎
Smoltz switched roles not positions
Braves fans, “how can I make this about me?”
That’s how baseball is if you can hit they’ll find a way to put you in the lineup to all the kids out there yes defense is cool and flashy but hitting and your bat gonna make you millions just look at shohei othani rn as the DH
Its funny how you said in the thumbnail positions dont matter and then the whole video was about how they do
Really good video overall though
Mookie is a unicorn
Bro you didn't even comment on the 2005 Astros when they had Jeff Kent and moved Biggio to the outfield. Sheesh
Your wrong!!! Mookie is that special, he already played multiple positions throughout his career
If you’re a Baseball purist this is just sacrilege. Analytics are fine for the long haul regular season but come the playoffs they suck. The Dodgers, the Phillies and the Braves are perfect examples of how little assurance you have of winning a short series with a team that is built on analytics. The Astros have done well ith it but it has bitten even them the past couple seasons. Not to mention, it’s just not as fun to watch. I don’t want my teams lead off Guy to be a 3 true outcome .198 hitter. I wanna know who my Shortstop is gonna be every game. There are positive aspects of Analytics but boy are they just fucking boring.
The past tense of cost is cost.
Fun fact: Chris Taylor is 1 for 35. 🥳
😖🤦♂️
And … Max Muncy commits more run-scoring errors than any corner player I’ve seen since Casey Blake. I’m not a stat guy, so only speaking as a fan who watches every Dodger game (& recaps on all t’others). 🥴
Mookie is honestly the best athlete in mlb so him playing short doesn't mean nothing.
Love or hate it but the 3 true outcome is the philosophy of baseball right now. Adapt or die
2:55 or you put him in left field🤣🤣 cause if it’s to his left it’s foul
Mookie works before games taking ground balls for years. All Dodgers work. Other teams not so much. When your 300 milli players are grinding, everyone puts in more.
Anyone can play in any position but CF and SS. Only great athletes can play SS and CF as well as any other position.
Mookie going to SS isnt as big a deal as you think. He came up as a 2B, so they stuck him in the OF.. so going to SS from an original 2B aint a big deal muhthafucka. And tbh swapping inf positions isnt as hard as the announcers and show hosts say. I've done it plenty and as a lefty...
What is the argument here? That positions don’t matter? Not only do I highly disagree, but your examples were not even supportive of that argument.
Sure, an MLB player can probably play any position because of their aptitude. They’re professionals after all. They may not be a Gold Glove winner at it, but they can play it. Typically, outfielders can be interchanged with outfielders and Infielders can be interchanged with infielders. The mechanics the same, it’s just a matter of the specific nuances. A lot of them tend to have secondary positions in their field (and sometimes out of their field). Even if it’s not their secondary, they can play it fairly easy. A great example of this is Bobby Dalbec on the Red Sox. Drafted as a Third Baseman, mostly plays Third Base, Secondary Position is First Base, but the Red Sox moved him over to Shortstop in a game in a pinch and the game went on as normal. Played like he belonged there.
Mookie was drafted as an infielder. Second Baseman to be specific. So playing the infield isn’t new to him. It’s not like he was a Catcher that got thrown out to Shortstop. Bryce Harper to first is another terrible example. I’m not saying playing First Base is easy, but like you said, they moved Cabrera over to Third because Fielder couldn’t play anything except First….that says a lot. First Base is just one of those positions that requires very little athleticism to play 99% of the time. You could put a person from the crowd at First Base if you needed to.
We can start making this argument when like they put Lance Lynn at Third Base or something. Not an infielder playing the infield.
You would be surprised how pressed fans on Twitter were about Mookie moving to Short. You basically reinstated my argument. It shouldn’t matter as much as people are making it. Mookie was an infielder and this shouldn’t be a big deal since he can be solid there while at the same time this gives the Dodgers their optimal lineup combination.
Mooooooooooooook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tl;dw - Mookie Betts is a pretty good shortstop
Some of these guys are freak, freak athletes. Mookie is not a good example. He’s a freak of nature.
There is nothing new under the sun. Been there, done that.
And every line? Is read as a question?
Imo the music in the back either need to be turned up or turned off
You have the same speaking cadence as mark zuckerberg
Seems like there's a common theme here. 99% of the MLB is made up of incredible athletes. Incredible athletes can play any position, because the main prerequisite to playing good defense at any position is athleticism. I see this every weekend in youth baseball. If a kid can play SS or 2B, he can play anywhere. If the kid can only play 1st or RF, he can't just play anywhere.
Betts has played a ton of 2b
This isn't a new phenomenon you know?
MLB teams out here playing like its diamond dynasty
Mookie is a team player. Gotta love it. He's also unbelievably talented. Also hats off to Bryce Harper who is a real trooper. He's not the same snot nose he was when eh was younger. He's grown into a great leader and a warrior.
Damn, are analytics guys back to claiming defense doesn’t matter? Thought that was finally debunked. Defense matters, so positions matter. Mookie is, like Shohei, a unicorn. MLB players are not, as a general rule, able to move from years of gold glove play in RF to playing SS for the first time in their 30s. It’s not representative of what matters in baseball today. And, if Mookie ends up failing at the position, trust that they’ll move him asap rather than pretend baseball is now position-less.
It’s not MLB FOs or anything thinking this, just CZcamsrs looking for clicks. Mookie is an elite elite talent. We should speak on the MLB by the average player, not the top .1% of players. We should speak on mookie, because it’s cool, but not act like it’s representative of the league as a whole
@@pohorex6834 Agreed!
Positions don't matter... as long as you have average athletes on your team
It's 'cost' not 'costed'.
'costed' is used when assigning prices (or not) for inventory accounting.
This is not a new concept, see Honus Wagner or Jimmie Foxx to start
Wait… mookies already 31. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
“But I’ve never played 1st base..”. It’s not that hard ( Billy Bean). “it’s incredibly hard” ( the scout)
This is the worst take I’ve ever heard in my entire life. What a maroon 😂
The ‘scout’ was Ron Washington, Former Braves third base coach and current Angels manager.
“What a maroon”
There is nothing new here. Mauer, Biggio, Chipper, Erstad, and even some guy named Ernie Banks. Look them up.
Either BDE copied your video or you copied his bruh. Nearly same stuff said, exact same clips and graphics
lol “costed his team” it’s cost bro just cost
Yeah,position dont matter. Until someone commits 3 errors in a game (or a series). Then it might matter.
Yeah but putting a good batter in a spot where they commit three errors is still better than putting a good defender there who bats .190
@@colmecolwag aint that the truth!
1:22 i would expect someone with an "analytics" channel to understand how statistics work. the "average" is the total over number of instances. "zero" does not men you are "average" unless you add up all the defensive runs saved does not mean one is an "average player" unless you total up all of the players DRS and divide it by the number of players and that number is zero. it might mean something else, like this break even DRS is what we'd like as a minimum. please learn his statistics work before you talk about them and spread math illiteracy.
although i disagree… i still liked your video … Dodgers don’t value Defense .. They are analytically Driven and rely that PRS stat …Having players play their home position still reigns King ..
the moved mookie to SS because lux was having issues at SS, which is why lux is at 2B. the obviously care about defense.
@@darwinwins .. you idiot .. You think Mookie is that much better than Lux at short ? 🤦🏻♂️ .. if they cared about defense they would be Starting Rojas instead of Lux at short and kept mookie at 2nd …
the entire video was about defensive analytics 😂
@@pizzaparityno shit ! … what do you think i was talking about … certainly not offense ..
I SEE SMITH MOVING TO THIRD AND MAKE ROOM FOR ONE OF THE YOUNG TALENTS THAT CAN HIT AND ACTUALLY CATCH DEFENSIVELY AT FUNDAMENTALLY HIGHER LEVEL THAN SMITH.
You are talking about .01% of baseball players....there only a few people in the world that can do this in Baseball....this is not a normal thing. Mookie is not a normal Baseball player....or Human.
Tommy Edman went from gold glove at second to shortstop and now centerfield. Mookie isn’t the only person that can move between high skill positions and thrive
0:18- as a Braves fan that hurt… good thing that 2020 ring doesn’t count (I would have counted it if the Braves won)
way too much emphasis on hitting in baseball. it is part of the reason why I don't go to mlb games anymore. They are boring. I just bought season tickets to a minor league team.
Bub, you have starters, openers, and relievers consistently sitting upper 90s on cutters and sinkers. Change ups with more run/break than curve balls in the past. Not to mention pitch engineering with Rapsoto and spin manipulation. It’s not an emphasis on hitting because “we want ball go boom”, it’s because even your best players can’t get on base like they used to so you need as many chances to have + pro at-bats in your lineup.
Go buy those tickets lol we’re in the age of the freak athlete, and the floor is higher than it’s ever been.
And not to come at you, but you think minor league teams where guys barely know each other, just want to get out of there, and are trying to get their clubs attention by putting up big offensive numbers is going to have a more “traditional” baseball feel?
No one remembers the AA champions, those guys are just trying to throw and hit nukes.
@@daltonclarke7600 they absolutely want to go boom in most cases. Look how often hitters didn't take advantage of the shift and just knock the ball in to left field. Look how often players swing out of their shoes when a runner in a close game is sitting on 3rd. The game is run via spreadsheets now. And those spreadsheets say to hit more home runs. It is the reason why people like Schwarber are even in the pros. It became too easy to hit a homerun and that changed the game to the TTO bore fest we have now. MLB failed to balance the game properly as players got better and now we have all sorts of dumb rules being experimented trying to make the game more fun again when all they needed to do was deaden the ball a bit and lower the mound.
Stop ending your sentences in question marks or with your voice going up. You'll narorate so much better if you speak with authority and end your sentences down and grounded
must be part aussie
Might be Canadian. It’s called the Canadian rise.
Narrate? Lmao I love people that criticize others, always have some dumb shit they get wrong themselves. Commenting this is actually mentally ill. Just don't watch him.
@@patrickberhow8578 you've never given or taken any criticism in your life? I find that hard to believe. What I said isn't harmful to anybody who is open minded or confident in themselves. You can choose yourself to take offense or learn from it. It seems you have low mental discipline to get so worked up over a comment like this
Very valley girl
Baseball isn't even baseball anymore. What they are doing now is unwatchable. I stopped watching years ago when Joe Maddon, the shift and analytics ruined the game.
Womp Womp
😂😂 Baseball is so good now. I'm sorry for your loss.
Mookie arm needs to be in outfield throwing out runners. Fire Dave Roberts
mookies probably going to throw out far more people at ss due to his arm talent than he would in the outfield by a long shot
mlb the show doesnt think mookie is an elite athlete with like 51 speed.. judge has like 45 speed, soto has like 54 speed.. makes no sense.. None are super fast but none are that slow.
this is nothing new
Hahahahahahaha
Dude, your narratives are insane........Fernando Tatis only became a good outfielder because he was a TERRIBLE shortstop. But nice attempt at spin.
Elite bats have always been stuck at a position they weren't all that great at......this is the norm.......quit acting like putting subpar defenders at a position is revolutionary.
Not all elite bats offer subpar defensive skills but most do.
That's why Ronald Acuna, Mike Trout, and Bobby Witt were and are special.
Mookie Betts is obviously special, a future hall of famer even.
But he is not a good shortstop by any means. He is currently in the negatives of defensive runs above average.....the rating you would want to compare shortstops against shortstops and not shortstops to right fielders......of course a shortstop is going to be more valueable than a right fielder. And oh ya, made another error today and a dropped the ball on trying to turn a double play. A stat that will definitely be a negative because while not an error technically, most players would've turned a double play there.
He is currently ranked 23 among shortstops.....and that's without the error and the muffed double play......like I said your narratives are insane......and a month of analytics would tell you you were overzealous in your analysis, hahaha.
He was a much better outfielder than he is a shortstop.
You're trying to dress up old strategy as analytics and game theory and it's really lame.
You talk like Forrest, Forrest Gump.
It's Mookie Betts, not Kyle Schwarblunder. Mookie could probably play any position, even catcher, and probably even make a half-ass decent bullpen pitcher.