Daily Fantasy Baseball: Positive Batted-Ball Regression Candidates for Week 22
Andrew Benintendi, OF, Boston Red Sox
It's hard to find many underperformers in the powerhouse offense of the Boston Red Sox, but a recent slump from Andrew Benintendi does warrant some attention. The 24-year-old carries a .227/.306/.295 slash line over the past two weeks, with an .068 isolated slugging (ISO) and precisely zero homers in that span.
It does look like Benintendi has struggled to lift the ball (15.2% fly-ball rate), though with 33.3% liners and 27.3% hard contact, it's not as if his approach has been utterly dire. Few Red Sox hitters will be outright bargains in the daily game, but with the poor results leaving Benintendi's FanDuel salary to trend below $4,000, he makes for a relatively inexpensive piece of the Boston pie against hittable righties like Trevor Richards, Lucas Giolito, and James Shields.
