The Braves’ team physician helped Dansby Swanson get healthy by removing a piece of loose cartilage that floated in his left wrist for most of the 2018 season, causing sometimes excruciating pain. And after Swanson rehabbed from November surgery in time for spring training, another doctor of sorts helped fix his swing.



Chipper Jones, Hall of Famer, hitting savant and unofficial swing doctor for various players through the years, thinks Swanson can be a “Derek Jeter-type of hitter” — despite a .235 average and .667 OPS during the shortstop’s first two full seasons in the majors.



“Oh my gosh, it was beautiful,” Braves hitting coach Kevin Seitzer said of Swanson’s work with Jones, the former Braves third baseman who now serves as a special assistant in baseball operations, often working one-on-one with hitters. “Chipper keeps me filled in on what he’s talking to the guys about, and I mean, he and I are...