Orioles 'slugger' Chris Davis is having a mind-bogglingly bad season
It was a relatively slow day of baseball on Thursday, so indulge me as I go down the rabbit hole with
Chris Davis. Hopefully we'll all come out alive.
Davis is having a terrible season. I didn't realize exactly how mind-boggling awful until Wednesday morning when I noted that, despite playing in nearly all the
Baltimore Orioles' games, he had scored just nine runs. I mentioned this on Twitter and one response I can print here came from robj1028, who wrote back, "I feel awkward liking a tweet that I don't really like the fact presented but there's no other reaction on Twitter."
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I would guess Davis has a shot, if only because of the most important criteria (besides sucking): playing time. Davis is signed for four more seasons after this one, at a hefty price of $23 million per season. With such a heavy investment in Davis, and this season already lost, the Orioles may have little choice but to plow forward and hope Davis can figure things out.
And if he doesn't? As one reader responded to me, "I can't wait to tell my grandkids the Orioles couldn't sign
Manny Machado because they instead signed Chris Davis."