It's been the best of times and the worst of times for vaunted Philadelphia Phillies rookie Scott Kingery, who finds himself in a major contact funk after starting the season red-hot. The 23-year-old infielder has a grisly 38.5% strikeout rate over the past two weeks, leaving him with a .143 batting average over that span.
But Kingery is also lacing pitches when he does make contact, flashing a 35.0% hard-hit rate over his last 39 plate appearances, yet coming away with an isolated slugging percentage of exactly .000.
An injury to J.P. Crawford figures to put Kingery's playing-time woes to bed, at least in the short term. With Kingery's FanDuel price hovering around $3,000 and manageable lefties like Wei-Yin Chen, Dillon Peters, and Gio Gonzalez on the slate for the Phillies, this streaky young infielder could provide daily players with a nice, affordable piece of that surprisingly potent Philadelphia offense.