Healy had more home runs than walks in each of his two first years. Read that sentence again. Now, that would be great if he was a 40+ HR guy, but I'm not buying in on that. I'm glad he's a 25 HR / 25 2B type of player, but I would like to know what makes him better than Mark Trumbo or CJ Cron or Dae-Ho Lee. His hit tool is decent, his power has gone up a bit in response to his willingness to strike out more, but I haven't seen any trajectory that makes him better than that.
Because his price is "free" that kind of contribution is really okay with me, there are just serious limitations on the upside of a guy who can strike out 140 times but can't walk 30. He - and Vogue, and most of Denver's spaghetti - cost basically nothing, and nothing is a great price if you can squeak out league-average positional performance for a year or two. That's what Seattle is hoping for: keep it around league average until ace defender and 1st-round blue-chipper Evan White gets here.
Then you spin off Healy like the Angels did with Kotchman (and Cron, incidentally) and go on about your business. That's a fine stopgap, but that's all I'm hoping for from Healy regardless of his irrational confidence levels. The Ms need a couple of guys to hit an UP projection, though - it'd be nice if Healy helped himself to one.