We're Going Streaking! The return of Adam LaRoche's better half

Big League Stew goes through the quad and into the gymnasium to look at some of the hottest players in baseball and their chances of keeping it going. Adam LaRoche(notes), Atlanta Braves The Naked Truth: .271/.352/.486, 21 HR, 62 RBI (.354/.440/.626, 8 HR, 19 RBI in 27 games since being traded to the Braves)Having a nice little Saturday: Adam LaRoche wasn't one of the most heralded trade deadline acquisitions — Cliff Lee(notes) and Matt Holliday(notes) were both bigger names and both have performed brilliantly — but Adam may still have been the best, as the NYT's Benjamin Hoffman suggests. The Braves reacquired their erstwhile farmhand from Boston for nothing more than the offensively-challenged Casey Kotchman(notes) and LaRoche has an OPS over 1.000 since rejoining his old team. He has always been a second-half player — his career OPS split between the first and second halves is .773/.913 — and he has been the Braves' best hitter since he came to...