Once it finally ended, Scott Kingery was able to say what everyone plainly saw for the better part of six months. There were times during his rookie season when he felt utterly lost at the plate.
"To be honest," Kingery said after the 2018 Phillies played their final game, "I don't know what happened this year."
What happened, quite frankly, was that Kingery got chewed up by big-league pitchers. Of the 183 players who made at least 450 plate appearances, the 24-year-old infielder was 177th in slugging (.338), 179th in on-base percentage (.267), 180th in on-base plus slugging (.