The earlier consistent ABs probably makes sense. He will be in Detroit at some point this season, either due to injury to an IF or when Schoop is eventually traded/released. I suppose its possible Short might be above Kreidler on that pecking order, so there is that slight caveat.
I guess as far as bench depth goes, if the Tigers are comfortable with Vierling at 3B, Maton as a backup middle IF along with another middle IF on the roster not named Baez or Schoop probably works for now.
I forget, weren't there some changes made to rules regarding shuffling back and forth between the majors and minors? I would like to say that there might be a pretty good amount of fluidity with a few bench and pitching slots, but I thought I had heard some of the rules might be a bit more of an obstacle to that.