Just two weeks before Opening Day, the Los Angeles Dodgers gerrymandered their middle infield again. The team that won 100 games last year with Miguel Rojas and Miguel Vargas as its most used shortstop/second base pairing switched to a Gavin Lux/Mookie Betts arrangement at the start of camp and now has reversed their roles because Lux could not throw reliably enough from shortstop across the diamond.
Suddenly the rest of the baseball world sees a vulnerability in the Dodgers. Betts is a fine all-around player who grew up playing shortstop, but he has started 12 major league games at shortstop. Lux missed last season with an ACL tear and is fighting physical and mental rust.
Vulnerable? Forget it.
