The Indians lineup right now doesn’t matter. The fact that the three hole on Opening Day was filled by Tyler Naquin is inconsequential. Remember the lineup from the first week of the 2016 season? As laid out by Zack Meisel at The Athletic, this stuff changes. A lot.
In 2018, Terry Francona used 108 different batting orders, with the most common used just 13 times. And since the Indians entire offseason ethos basically has been, “Let’s see what we got here,” Tito is going to have to tinker to figure that out.