It’s come to this. Joc Pederson, once the front-runner for NL rookie of the year, has been benched for five of the Dodgers’ past six games. Mired in a 5-for-57 skid that has dragged his season AVG down to .213, he hasn’t even been called on to pinch-hit in the past four of those. And even with Yasiel Puig out with a sore hammy, the Dodgers have gone with Enrique Hernandez in the OF instead. Baseball is about adjustments and, while major league pitching has found his weaknesses, Pederson has been unable to counter-adapt. His monthly AVGs have been in steady decline: April .
Fantasy Fare: Joc Pederson bottoms out
