I despised the trade that brought him here, but Erick Aybar is now our starting shortstop, and here’s the thing: he’s a pretty good player. Almost certainly a better player than AAG, the guy we got the last time we traded our starting shortstop and insisted upon getting a major league shortstop in return.
(For those who weren’t here in 2011, AAG stands for Another Alex Gonzalez, a play on the fact that he was the younger of two major league shortstops named Alex Gonzalez at the time, and there were also two posters on Bravesjournal named Alex R.