Quick Hits: That pesky handedness usage thing

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty ImagesIt 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. Some forecasts had the bullpen as the weakest part of the enterprise, and so it has come to pass. (Whether the bullpen or the rotation was considered worse in large part depends on health and therefore playing time.)

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