Jackie Bradley Jr. needs to sit more often than he is

Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty ImagesIt’s always easy around this time of year to overreact to a month of baseball action. Over the middle of the season, a month of bad baseball is certainly noticeable, but we have other months to which we can compare what we’re seeing. For April, which just ended in case you forgot how calendars work, that’s all we’ve got. We know it’s just a month of baseball and it’s open to small sample size noise, but when there’s no other baseball to look at to make us feel better, at least in the same calendar year, it’s harder to resist the urge to overreact. Of course, there’s also the fact that sometimes these struggles are sustained as the year goes on! That’s what makes managing baseball rosters, both on the field and in the front office, so dang hard! It gets even harder when the subject at hand is notoriously streaky and seemingly flips the switch every year from being one of the worst hitters in the game to being a legitimate middle-of-the-order hitter. You just never know when it’s going to happen.

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