Healy goes 0-for-4 in MLB

The Oakland A’s welcomed their eighth MLB debut of the 2016 season on Friday, with 24-year-old Ryon Healy playing third base against the Blue Jays.

Unfortunately Healy went 0-for-4 at the plate, but on the bright side he made all his plays at the hot corner.

Healy is a big guy, measuring 6’5 with a solid frame, and he stands at his full height at the plate until dipping into an understated crouch after the pitcher has already started his windup.

As you can see, it didn’t go so well at the plate in Healy’s debut, but it’s just one game and you can never discount the first-day jitters.

Healy flipped to second for the force, but it wasn’t hit that hard and Carrera has some speed so that’s all they got.

In the 8th inning, he built on that success by corralling a smash off the bat of Josh Donaldson, then delivering a perfect throw to second to start the easy 5-4-3 double play and get a bit of payback for his own GIDP earlier on.

You can’t see it well in this replay, but the ball was slightly to Healy’s left (glove side) and he had to react quickly to get to it: That would be a big step up for the A’s at third base, and if Healy can be an above-average hitter then some good ol’ average work at the hot corner would be plenty good.

He made one more play in the 9th, another routine but well-executed chance on a grounder by none other than Edwin Encarnacion, who once carried the nickname E-5 for his own porous glovework at third (don’t worry, it all worked out well in the end for Edwin).

It wasn’t the best MLB debut in history, but at least Healy was good on one side of the ball, even if it wasn’t the one we expected.