JUPITER, Fla. -- Johan Camargo was the Braves’ starting shortstop Wednesday against the Cardinals. On Thursday, he might be at third. Or second. Or maybe in the outfield. Anywhere suits Camargo just fine, as long as he’s penciled into the starting lineup.

“To be honest with you, my favorite position is to be in the lineup, wherever they put me,” Camargo said. “I just want to play.”

Camargo’s versatility is what makes him such a valuable commodity to the Braves.

“We’ve got a four-man bench, so the versatility is really big for us,” manager Brian Snitker said. “That’s why a guy like Charlie [Culberson] is so valuable. It’s almost like you need that if that’s how you’re going to operate. It’s kind of becoming a trend ... that’s industry-wide. It’s big.”

Camargo also showed last season that he has some pop, slugging 19 homers with 76 RBIs in 464 at-bats. He had a .272/.349/.457 slash line in 134 games. The 25-year-old Panama native is also a switch-hitter, another edge on making the roster. His 2018 OPS splits of .813 from the right side and .803 from the left show that he’s equally effective from either side of the plate.

“For his first full year, he had a really good, solid offensive year last year,” Snitker said. “After the year he had last year and how we look at him, I’m about 95 percent sure that he’ll -- I mean, I don’t see him not making our club, I’ll put it that way. With the versatility, he can play a big part in what we’re trying to do here.”

Although he’s listed mainly as a third baseman – he had 105 starts at the hot corner last season -- Camargo flashed his skills at shortstop in the second inning Wednesday when he knocked down a sharp liner by the Cardinals’ Harrison Bader. Camargo wasn’t able to throw out Bader, who was credited with a single, but his play denied St. Louis a run.

“I thought actually last year he was probably about as good of a defensive third baseman as there was,” Snitker said of Camargo. “He’s very solid at all the infield positions, really.”

Camargo also has been getting some work in the outfield this spring and could be a spot starter at either one of the corner-outfield positions this season.

“He has the ability, as we’ve seen, because that was his job a couple of years ago when we first brought him up, was to move him around,” Snitker said. “Now he’s back to doing that, and I’m going to get him some reps in the outfield this spring. He’s done a lot of outfield [work in camp], but I haven’t gotten him in a game yet.”

Camargo said he actually played every position when he was a Little Leaguer in Panama. If Snitker asked him to pitch, well, Camargo has done that, too, and would likely take the mound.

“I welcome the opportunity that they give me and enjoy it,” said Camargo, who had a sharply hit single up the middle in his first of three at-bats Wednesday. “I just want to play.”