Braves Journal, The House That Mac Built

19 Mar

When you think of some of core players of our future, you think of Ronald Acuna Jr, Freddie Freeman, Ozzie Albies, a bulk of the pitchers, and maybe even Dansby Swanson. But Ender Inciarte is about as core to the rebuild as some of the previously-mentioned players. When Shelby Miller was traded, it wasn’t just that we took back a #1 pick or an interesting pitching prospect. We took back, at the time, a young, cost-controlled player who had just come off a 3.2 fWAR season. The Diamondbacks had AJ Pollock, so they weren’t necessarily going to miss Ender Inciarte, and the focus was on Dansby Swanson anyway.

And part of that reason was that there was some risk with Inciarte. He doesn’t…