It feels kind of odd to say this halfway through an April where the Red Sox are awful and the Mariners have apparently unlocked the mysteries of the universe, but things for the Atlanta Braves have mostly gone as expected, so far. The hitting has been excellent, the fielding has been excellent, the position players have been not only as expected, but even a little better. The rotation has been a kitchen sink affair, but as a whole, more or less as expected — good stuff and bad stuff, average-ish as a whole.