The Braves head over to Port Charlotte this afternoon to take on the Rays in their second-to-last Grapefruit League game of 2022. (Tomorrow, the Rays will visit North Port, and that will be that.) Ian Anderson will take the hill for the Braves, and we’ll see whether he tries to get outs today or just continue tinkering in the context of an exhibition game where they do, in fact, keep score.
Scheduled Rays starter Josh Fleming throws with his left hand, so the Braves are rolling out a lineup that looks like the one they might deploy full-time against southpaws when the regular season begins:
They could, I suppose, use the same lineup against right-handers, too, but that would seem a little weird.