Los Angeles Dodgers celebrity Mookie Betts won’t play within the Tokyo Collection, supervisor Dave Roberts informed reporters Monday in Japan (Sunday night time in Los Angeles).
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Betts has been coping with an sickness, and sadly gained’t be wholesome sufficient to swimsuit up.
The Dodgers are considering sending him residence early.
Betts has been coping with the sickness for the previous week, and has misplaced shut to fifteen kilos, per Roberts. He didn’t swimsuit up in both of the 2 exhibition video games over the weekend, and the hope was he would participate in Monday’s exercise after which be reevaluated.
Sadly, Betts didn’t take part within the exercise, and now has formally been dominated out for each video games in opposition to the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Roberts mentioned the Dodgers had been anxious he could be extra inclined to mushy tissue accidents since he’s so weak, particularly as he transitions to shortstop.
“The factor is if you lose a variety of weight, if you’re dehydrated, that’s what opens an individual as much as soft-tissue accidents,” Roberts mentioned. “We’re very conscious of that. So to take the following week … to construct him again up, his energy, do some baseball actions to prepare for the house opener.”
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Roberts mentioned that Miguel Rojas will exchange Betts at shortstop and within the lineup for L.A. The Cubs have two left-handers on the mound within the Tokyo Collection — Shota Imanaga and Justin Steele — so Rojas will get two alternatives because the shortstop and at the back of the lineup.
Betts will now have 11 days to completely get better forward of home Opening Day in opposition to the Detroit Tigers on March 27.
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