Khris Davis has some of the oddest baseball stats I’ve ever seen.

He’s leading the majors in homers, with nine in just sixteen games, accumulating only 68 plate appearances. Nobody else in the majors has hit more than seven homers.

So what’s so weird? He is the ultimate exemplification of the new MLB “all or nothing” strategy. He has no doubles, no triples, and only eight singles. With those singles and a mere four walks, he has been standing on a base only twelve times all year and has never reached scoring position on his own! As a result, he almost never scores a run unless he hits a homer. He is currently on pace for 90 homers, but only 110 runs scored!

Speaking of baseball …

I saw Blake Snell pitch against the Rockies last week when I was visiting friends in SW Florida. That was the best outing I have ever seen as a ballpark spectator. It seemed like he threw every single pitch at the knees, and some of them were breaking sharply downward as they passed. He struck out 13 in just seven innings, and allowed only three baserunners, one of whom was caught stealing. He had still faced the minimum number of batters in the top of the sixth, and not a single member of the Rockies ever reached scoring position. I knew the kid must be good because he won the Cy Young last year, winning 21 games in just 180 innings, but this was better than good. He pitched one for the ages.

4 thoughts on “Khris Davis has some of the oddest baseball stats I’ve ever seen.

  1. Not exactly that then. Seems he was the only one who didn’t look sick in those games. And I watched both of those depressing affairs. Snell’s curve thrown from that height is truly evil. A lot of talk about JR getting 40-itis (HRs) . It’s been noticeable that he’s not using the whole field as he has in the past. There may be too much of a race in the Central for my taste this year. No Lindor yet, JR hitting like this, Clevinger out thru maybe June, 3 bad starts by Carrasco and Kluber. But then the Tribe usually looks less than glorious in April even in good years.

  2. Seeing Snell twice in 10 days or so last summer put Jose Ramirez in a funk he has yet to climb out of.

    1. Well, something happened to that guy. From August 15 until the end of last season, he batted .166 with .290 slugging. This year: .146 with .208 slugging. Over that period: 3 homers in 200 at bats, plus only one homer in spring training. Suddenly he’s the single worst-hitting regular in MLB, except for Chris Davis. Hard to figure. Sounds like an untreated injury.

      I looked up those two games against Snell. Ramirez was 2-for-7 with a homer, so he did fine. The team – not so much. The Ramirez homer was their only hit off Snell in that Sept 12 game.

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