The Phillies organization and their fans were in a frenzy over the production of Rhys Hoskins during his time with the team last season. With good reason, people were envisioning Hoskins surpassing 50 home runs when logging an entire season’s worth of games. However, things haven’t quite gone as planned thus far this season.
While Hoskins is on pace for 45 doubles and 98 RBI, his home run production has dropped to a rate of one in 28 at-bats and is striking out at an alarming rate of once every 2.7 at-bats. He’s on pace to hit 19 home runs and strike out 196 times with a relatively mediocre batting average in the .