PHILADELPHIA – Mookie Betts had doubts.

After all, a year ago, he had started the season as the Dodgers’ shortstop but he didn’t finish the season there. He moved back to right field after returning from a broken hand in August.

“(At) the start of the (2025) season I wasn’t sure I would end the season there. I thought there may have to be adjustment at some point because from lack of trust or whatever,” Betts said as the postseason started last week. “I just didn’t know. I didn’t know.

“I’m just proud of myself for making it all the way through the year and actually achieving a goal that I kind of set out to do, and that’s being a major league shortstop, and say I did it and I’m good at it.”

He is. Though he didn’t often appear in highlights packages, he made all the plays a major-leag

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