fatbeard
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You could still go LRLR with schwarber/bryant/Rizzo/Baez. You would also be putting another high on base guy in front of Baez. Sure you're hitting him 5th instead of 4th but statistically speaking he's usually going to lead off an inning hitting 4th because 1-3 all have OBP over .333. Batting him 5th would essentially be like batting him second just in the second inning on most days.
The last Schwarber-at-leadoff experiment didn't exactly work out well. I'm not saying it would turn out the same way again, but it's worth remembering that it did break him so bad he had to go back to the minors to unscrew his approach.