HOUSTON — With more than three months remaining until Opening Day, picking a spot where Michael Brantley will hit in the Astros’ lineup isn’t something manager AJ Hinch has to commit to right away. Only two things matter to the Astros at this point: They were able to sign one of their biggest offseason targets, and Brantley, one of the premier left-handed hitters in baseball, is going to slot in nicely somewhere in the top half of a Houston lineup that was already packed with some of baseball’s best young hitters.
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