Back to the Atlanta Braves Newsfeed

Optimize your own (damn) (Braves) lineup

The baseball zeitgeist in April is always a little strange. There’s all this euphoria about baseball coming back, and that leads to this almost-nervous energy about trying to categorize everything we’re seeing as “real” or “not real.” Not “not real” as in, “this didn’t actually happen,” but rather, “this is unlikely to continue.” But, all we have right now are small sample sizes. Our lizard brains wants to latch on to something; it’s instinctual.

Right now, the Braves-fandom-zeitgeist, if such a thing exists, seems to be partially focused on Ender Inciarte. Not just on the man and his offensive struggles to date (to which, really, it’s been two weeks in April), but on what should be done with the lineup.