When the Brewers decided to bring Mike Moustakas back, they didn’t waste much time in announcing they would be trying him at second base this spring.
Craig Counsell and David Stearns said they wanted to see how the career third baseman would handle the new position before deciding whether they had to move on to Plan B. As it turns out, that backup plan — likely Travis Shaw going back to second base full-time — never had to be tested.
While Moustakas has yet to be confronted with a double play opportunity this spring, he’s acquitted himself well enough and put in enough work every day that Counsell was comfortable enough to name Moose his starting/primary/initial out-getting second baseman today.