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Ryan McMahon 2022 Player Outlook: Not Worth Your Draft Capital
3 years agoEarly on in 2021 it looked like Ryan McMahon was breaking out as a top fantasy hitter. He smashed eight homers in April while hitting .273 and slugging .556. His May wasn't so bad either as he hit five more homers on a .469 slugging percentage. From June on, however, he hit just ten additional homers while hitting for a .251 batting average and a low .411 slugging percentage. That leaves fantasy managers wondering who Ryan McMahon really is. He awful away from Coors Field (.227 AVG, .406 SLG, 11 HR), and did not show much in terms of raw power (7.0% Brl%, 111.5 max exit velocity). He is just 27 years old, which means it is feasible that he really improves over the next few years, but for right now he seems very much like a lackluster fantasy bat. The big picture is that McMahon profiles for a homer count in the mid-twenties while stealing at least a handful of bases while providing decent batting average half the time (at home). That is about as gracious as we can be about McMahon, and the whole picture paints him as a player that is not worth the draft cost (his ADP sits right around 180).
