After struggling with a new position last season, the 24-year-old new American citizen embraces another opportunity with less pressure
The Dodgers’ Miguel Vargas slides into second base with a double during the sixth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at Dodger Stadium. LOS ANGELES — It was only a few hours after Miguel Vargas returned to the major leagues last week when his journey to get back on the Dodgers’ roster was put into proper perspective.on Friday as Vargas cheered from the bench, the creases still in his brand new No. 27 Dodgers uniform after just being recalled.
It was nothing spectacular. There were mistakes but Vargas showed the potential to overcome them. And as he worked to get better on defense … he stopped hitting. “It is a really difficult thing to move out of the position ,” Vargas said. “And it’s different every time you move to another position. So, I mean, you have to be able to be as good as everybody expects you to be because you’re playing on the best team in baseball. So I really have to be at that level.”
Now playing a less-demanding left field, Vargas said he is in more of a comfort zone. He is having the most rewarding season of his career, highlighted in April when the Cuba native became a U.S. citizen. Vargas’ road to getting his edge back came in the offseason when he went to work with his father. Lazaro Vargas is one of the most decorated baseball players in Cuba history, helping the country to gold medals in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Dad and son were on the field together this winter in Florida, as well as in the batting cage. Instruction was blunt. Miguel Vargas said it was exactly what he needed.
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