Welcome back to Waive Hello, our weekly column on players you should be adding from the waiver wire.
Positional versatility is a huge weapon in the modern MLB. It’s always been true that players with a passable glove at multiple spots have always had more value than if they only played one position. But, in the sabermetric era, managers are more willing to use—and front offices are more aggressively targeting—that flexibility. Loading lineups is an arms race, and one of the best ways to do that is to target players with big bats and decent gloves at multiple positions on the diamond.