James McCann (C, DET) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

OWNED IN: 25% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Detroit Tigers catcher James McCann has been grabbed off of the wires because he has raised his average to .276. This comes even though he still only has two homers and 13 RBI and three of those runs were plated in May. Still, you need warm bodies in there and he is just as good a choice as any other one.

A big change for McCann is that he has cut his strikeout rate (albeit in a small sample of 119 plate appearances), as he has gone from striking out 22.8% of the time to 17.6%. While that is good, there are some issues, mainly that his hard hit ball rate is down (38.2% to 36%), his ground ball rate is up (37.6% to 42.7%), but his BABIP is at a career-best .314.

Catcher is an extremely shallow position, so we have to take the players that are hot. McCann is and should be owned in deeper leagues.