What It Means:

Journeyman Ryan Flaherty has been manning the hot corner to start the season and is leading the league with a .366 batting average, but when Bautista joins the team this week, he will assume the starting role, per manage Brian Snitker. The 37-year-old Bautista was signed to a minor league deal last week.

Bautista is coming off one of his worst hitting seasons as he batted a career-low .203 with 23 homers and 170 strikeouts in 686 plate appearances with Toronto.