Alden Gonzalez May 12, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Matt Olson usually hits two spots behind Drake Baldwin in the Atlanta Braves ' lineup, which means he is often at the top step of the dugout, about to walk into the on-deck circle, when Baldwin finishes an at-bat. Some of their most productive conversations occur in those brief moments of time. The two exceptional left-handed hitters, seven years and nine big league seasons apart, will use it to communicate what the analytics don't quite capture -- where to pick the baseball up out of the hand, how certain pitches look as they approach home plate, what adjustments need to be made because of it. "We obviously get pitched to a little bit differently because we have a little bit of different swings," Baldwin said.…