Skeptics were ready to carve a tombstone for Evan Longoria when the fading veteran was traded to the San Francisco Giants last winter. The aging infielder has done little to inspire confidence in the opening months of 2018, struggling to a .248 average with a 3.6% walk rate that might suggest he's lost his command of the strike zone.

Plate skills be damned, Longoria still seems to have some juice in his bat, cranking 10 homers while stinging the ball for a 45.7% hard-hit rate that would mark a career high. His outsized season-long 43.0% grounder rate is still a major eyesore, though he has improved that mark somewhat over the last month, stroking 20.2% liners while maintaining a solid 16.7% strikeout rate.

With his career .237 isolated slugging against lefties, Longoria and his sub-$3,000 FanDuel salary make for a decent roster filler this week against Alex Wood, Wei-Yin Chen, and Caleb Smith.