Ryon Healy (1B, SEA) - Week 6 Waiver Wire Pickups

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OWNED IN: 23% of leagues

ANALYSIS: Seattle Mariners first baseman Ryon Healy was acquired in the offseason to take over the first base job. However, an ankle injury slowed him down and gave the job to Dan Vogelbach. He returned from the disabled list to re-occupy his first base job and excelled thus far. In the last seven days, Healy has seven runs, four homers, nine RBI, .370 AVG, and a 1.245 OPS. Underlying stats can support this performance, but there are also key points that will cause some to avoid him.

Supporters will look towards his hard hit rate (37.2%) and his slightly above average fly ball rate (39.5%) as signs that this can be maintained. Naysayers will point toward his 3.2 BB% and a .246 AVG as indicators that this performance is just a hot streak. However, with a BABIP of .244, we can expect a positive regression of the batting average to someone more in line with his career average of .279. Healy has never been one to draw many walks so if that is a category in your league, you wil have to take that into consideration. Otherwise, expect more league owners to acquire Healy’s services for the near-term, at the very least.