Daily Fantasy Baseball: Positive Batted-Ball Regression Candidates for Week 10

Kendrys Morales, DH, Toronto Blue Jays

It says something about the unremarkable offensive production of Toronto Blue Jays slugger Kendrys Morales that perhaps his most memorable highlight of the season came when he pitched a scoreless ninth inning against the Oakland Athletics back on May 20th.

Indeed, 2018 has been a miserable year at the dish for Morales, who is barely poking his head above the Mendoza line heading into June, with only nine extra-base hits in 145 plate appearances.

Yet Statcast pegs the 34-year-old as a major positive regression candidate, with Morales sporting the widest gap in all of baseball between his actual slugging percentage (.333) and his expected rate (.511) based on quality of contact.

Considering his strong career .202 isolated slugging against righties and the litany of hittable right handers on the schedule for Toronto (the likes of Sonny Gray, Alex Cobb, Andrew Cashner, and Kevin Gausman), Morales has the makings of a tremendous value play in Week 10.