Coming into 2016, there were a lot of questions for the Braves as far as position players went. You knew Freddie Freeman would be a rock, and you hoped that Ender Inciarte could put up another value-laden season filled with average hitting and great defense. Beyond that, though, things got kind of dicey.
One area expected to be considerably less intriguing was shortstop: the Braves acquired Erick Aybar in the Andrelton Simmons trade with the Angels to serve as a bridge to Ozhaino Albies or the eventually-acquired Dansby Swanson. Aybar was coming off of a pretty poor (0.