“The biggest thing is we wanted to get him reps,” Anthopoulos said of Grissom. “He basically came up to the big leagues in 22, and I know he got to Double A for a very brief stint, but he basically was coming out of High A if you look at just the few at bats that he had. So we wanted to get him a ton of middle infield reps. He’s had an unbelievable year offensively. The numbers speak for themselves and he’s getting much better defensively as well. He’s a great athlete and that’ll be something that we’ll talk about as well. The bat plays, the makeup, the aptitude, the energy. He’s an amazing teammate. You want him a part of this team in some capacity, but I think the thing we have to balance is making sure that we can get him playing time and at-bats.”

Moving Grissom to left field has been a popular suggestion in the fan base and this is the first time that any Braves official has alluded to that being an option.

“Now that Orlando solidified himself at short, obviously the other two spots at second and third are spoken for with Ozzie and Austin. We’ll see if there’s an opportunity to move him around and get him playing time. But the fact that he can hit the way he can and he can play on the dirt and he’s such a great clubhouse guy. That’ll be something that we discuss in the off season. How do we try to get him into the mix somehow where? We want to make sure he plays otherwise we would have carried him. But again, with our guys being everyday players, it didn’t make sense to have him up here to not get reps. It was one thing to do it at the end of the year, but we’re still going to have discussions of where we can get some at bats.”

Later in the call, Anthopoulos touched on a possible position change again for Grissom, but did say that they still view him as an infielder.

“Vaughn’s such a great athlete. We believe he could play anywhere on the diamond,” Anthopoulos said. Look, we had guys like Riley spend a week playing outfield in Gwinnett before we called him up, even though we were committed to him playing third base. I think with Vaughn, we view him as an infielder. It’s hard to find guys that can hit like that and play on the dirt. The fact that he’s played all three positions, short, third and second, has real value for us, but he’s athletic enough that he could play anywhere on the diamond. I think for us, it was making sure we continued to get him reps on the infield.”

Dylan Lee underwent a shoulder procedure

The Braves announced earlier this week that Kyle Wright underwent surgery on his troublesome right shoulder and will miss the entire 2024 season. The team didn’t announce it, but Anthopoulos said that reliever Dylan Lee had a clean up on his shoulder, but is expected to be ready for the start of spring training. He also said that Tyler Matzek is also expected to be ready for the spring.

“Dylan Lee had a cleanup with his shoulder, should be ready for spring. Tyler Matzek, we expect obviously everyone’s aware of his rehab. We expect him to be ready to go for spring.”

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