Preseason ADP: 122.41

After a stellar rookie campaign in 2015 that consisted of 80 games and 335 plate appearances, Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Maikel Franco took a step back in 2016. However, there was still reason to believe that the 25-year-old could still break out this season.

But after getting selected before other fellow third basemen like Justin Turner, Nicholas Castellanos, Jake Lamb, and Travis Shaw, all he did was take yet another step back with regard to his overall offensive production.

Franco's 76 wRC+ and .690 OPS mark the third consecutive season his numbers have dropped in each of these categories, and while he still slugged 24 homers and drove in 76 runs through 623 plate appearances, it almost mirrored what he did in 2016 (25 homers, 88 RBI), just with worse efficiency.

What makes his 2017 campaign really head-scratching was the fact that he struggled mightily against lefties. In 162 plate appearances, he produced just a 66 wRC+ and .277 wOBA, each marking a steep drop from the year prior (122 and .357, respectively).

While his 33.3% hard-hit rate against southpaws is close to what it was last year (35.6%), his ground-ball rate spiked to 49.2% while his line-drive rate was just 8.7%. Franco's fly-ball rate increased nearly 10 percentage points, but his pull rate dropped from 49.0% to 39.7%.