Austin Hays (OF, BAL) - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups

3 years ago by RotoBrady

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ANALYSIS: It's been a slower start than Austin Hays is used to based on his previous MLB stints, but now in by far the longest of his career, he's working out issues and heating up. Hays had a decent first two months to the season before going ice-cold at the beginning of June, but he has picked up steam over the past week (26 AB) with a double, a home run, and a .346/.370/.500 slash, while also collecting his first steal of the season back on June 18th in his first try of 2021.

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Hays' problems began, in part, due to an increase and strikeout rate next to a meager 4.8% walk rate for this month, and while his line drive rate is slowly climbing back up, Hays has struggled to apply hard contact to batted balls for the majority of June. Hays is however still producing 59.1% medium-level contact on batted balls, and those will only start to fall for base-hits more and more as Hays starts hitting more liners. With above-average sprinting speed that Hays may finally let loose on the base-paths as he starts reaching base more and solid power upside, Austin Hays is worth taking a chance on in deeper leagues.

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