The Oakland A’s traded slugger Ryon Healy to the Mariners on Wednesday, the team announced. In return they received RHP Emilio Pagan and minor league infielder Alexander Campos.
The departure of Healy is no surprise, as he had publicly been on the trading block this winter. After a breakout rookie season in 2016, the 25-year-old suffered a relative sophomore slump this past year. Despite knocking 25 homers, he struggled to get on base and measured out as merely a league-average hitter, while providing little-to-nothing on defense as a DH, 1B, and occasional 3B. Overall he graded somewhere between replacement-level (0.