… but it’s not a record he’ll crow about.
In the long and storied history of major league baseball, dating back to 1871 or 1876 (historians disagree about whether the National Association {1871-1875} should be considered a major league), no player has ever compiled a worse batting average in 500 or more plate appearances.
He set the record at .168. The previous record was .179.
It looked iffy for a while because Davis was batting .180 on September 5th, and was on a tear, having batted .344 in his last eight games. But he was more than up to the challenge, finishing the season 1-for-37 to crush the record.
Davis also made a run at the record in 2014, when he finished at .196, 14th-worst in history.
He is in the third year of a 7-year, $161 million contract.