Miguel Andujar (3B, NYY) - Week 8 Waiver Wire Pickups

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ANALYSIS: New York Yankees third baseman Miguel Andujar is a foundational piece in an explosive offensive lineup; it is criminal that he is not owned in half of the leagues.  Andujar is batting .286 with 13 doubles, two triples and four homers. He has also added 20 runs and 16 RBI. Over the last seven days, he is hitting .350 with a home run, three runs scored, and three RBI

There are a couple of areas we would like to see improvement from Andujar. First, he hits the ball on the ground too often (48.7%), albeit at a decently hard rate (37.4%). He needs to work on getting the ball in the air more. Second, Andujar only walks 2% of the time and has a very low OBP (.296). Third, he has bad pitcher splits. Andujar is batting .194 against left-handed pitchers but .302 against right-handers. Until Andujar develops more, he is a third baseman to stream against righties.

He faces off against Texas the Los Angeles Angels in the coming week, which should have him lined up to face four righties.