Chris Davis is not playing the last weekend of the season:
Davis isn’t injured. He’s just had enough of a miserable season that’s gotten worse down the stretch.
If he doesn’t play this weekend, Davis will finish with a .168 batting average, lowest by a qualifier in big league history. The previous record was .179, by Rob Deer in 1991 and Dan Uggla in 2013.
Note that the Orioles gave a big contract to a player who was at the end of his prime and had two great seasons under his belt, and a bunch of okay ones. Note that last season, in about the same number of PA, he hit .215/.309/.423. It’s amazing to me that when he did not show improvement on those dismal numbers that the Orioles didn’t bench him. This may become an instance of the Orioles literally cutting their losses and letting Davis go.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2xYgKyR
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