It came as a surprise that Hernan Perez was not claimed on waivers after being DFA’ed over a month ago. But he accepted an outright assignment to Triple-A to stick with the Milwaukee Brewers organization.
In that time, Tyler Saladino came up to be the backup shortstop, which was a complete disaster, despite his two grand slams. Saladino was far worse than Perez was offensively in 2019 and has since been sent back to Triple-A. So now the backup shortstop is Mike Moustakas, who hasn’t played shortstop in a game in over a decade.