For Mookie Betts many would say it was a season to forget.
Despite his weak statistics, the short stop of Los Angeles Dodgers gave in a recent interview that he will remember the 2025 campaign as a game changer.
The 32-year-old is struggling due to the worst season of his 12-year-old MLB career and starts Saturday’s action with a OPS+ of 90, well under his career 135. Moreover, the seven-fold silver Slugger only cuts .239/.309/.371, all the figures that would be career depths if they stay at that level.
Betts, however, has diverted his focus not only to stimulate his figures, but also to help the Dodgers return to the World Series.
He told The Fabian Ardaya of athletics that he considered his season “kind of over. We will have to rise for no great season.”
That is difficult to hear when the Dodgers still have 46 games to play and start the matchup on Saturday with the Toronto Blue Jays only three games for the San Diego Padres in the National League West.
Betts added that, although it might be too late to turn his season, he knows that he can still help the Dodgers repeat as world champions.
“It is clear that everyone wants great seasons, but it is a lot easier if you are not worried about the season,” Betts said. “You are just worried about Game -ToGame. I will take this perspective for the rest of my career.”
Betts and the Dodgers can do a change in perspective in the last weeks of the regular season. He is in the middle of a 12-year-old $ 365 million deal that runs the 2032 campaign, which means that he will probably end his career in Los Angeles. With that type of capital that has been invested in him, the Dodgers need him to restore his Down season as quickly as possible, even if that means that the slate is being cleaned for 2026.
Nevertheless, this season Betts has beaten second for the Dodgers in 94 of the 116 games of the team. Moreover, the former MVP of the American League at the Leadoff spot spaced for 10 games, a movement that is designed to hopefully start its performance. However, the move did not work, because Betts only struck during the experiment .186.
While Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has had every reason to relocate Betts in the order, he recently told reporters that “… for me, it really doesn’t matter to him, that he is the best option we have at the top.”
Whether the revised mentality of Betts can help the Dodgers is something to pay attention to the rest of 2025 and then.
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