Heyward has a lot of potential and changed his swing after an injury. His problem isn’t a plate discipline problem, but a solid contact problem. Once he gets healthy and gets his mechanics back, he should be back to where he was. Plus he’s young, so he should get better. Obviously better than last year, and also better in an upward trend type of way.

The craziest thing is how far his BABIP dropped at an odd .275(while for his career it’s .339.) His bad attitude won’t change unless he goes to a team that he wants to play for but he could easily just take the most money that a team offers him. He seems like the kind of guy who’d rather make an extra 3 million a year instead of play somewhere he could dominate.

If you would check Braves box scores from late in the season, you will find that Heyward was not batting in the middle of the order as you state. In fact, its clear that the Braves did not trust him at all by then.

That doesn’t make his struggles any less real… if anything I would say Crawford got a pretty easy go of it considering how BAD he actually was.