Daily Fantasy Baseball: Positive Batted-Ball Regression Candidates for Week 3

Andrew Benintendi, OF, Boston Red Sox

While the Boston Red Sox have roared out of the gates to an electric start, promising young outfielder Andrew Benintendi has demurred, posting a modest .423 slugging line with no homers over the season's opening weeks. It's not as if the Sox slugger has been tearing the cover off the ball, either -- Benintendi's mere 17.8% hard-contact rate with a 53.3% ground-ball rate is, we have to admit, rather chilling.

Still, Benintendi appears to be seeing the ball well (18.8% walk rate against a 10.9% strikeout rate) and showing plus bat speed (53.3% pull rate), so it might only be a matter of time before the youngster turns that outsized 60% medium-contact rate into surer strokes.

Daily players might consider lining up Benintendi in this week as a solid mid-priced option against soft right-handed starters Andrew Cashner and Andrew Triggs.