tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post2865357326443252583..comments2024-01-06T02:22:33.000-05:00Comments on Camden Depot: Meet Chris Davis 2.0, Same As The Old Chris DavisJon Shepherdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03521809778977098687noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-59867092599914585262018-06-30T20:50:11.440-04:002018-06-30T20:50:11.440-04:00Also seems very simular to Adam Dunn. Pretty good ...Also seems very simular to Adam Dunn. Pretty good player, excellent athlete for his size was very good until about 30 then exploded to sub replacement level extremely fast. These huge guys with this skill set dont seem to age well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10283212738470404839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-84853775359491073152018-06-30T20:47:42.867-04:002018-06-30T20:47:42.867-04:00On Davis his bat speed seems to be down significan...On Davis his bat speed seems to be down significantly. His athletisicm seems to have eroded signifigantly. There a bunch of stats showing this pretty consistently (exit velocity, run speed, DEFENSE ratings). He was an extremely good athlete for his size. Made the package work. Now not so much sadly. I honestly dont even feel he could be an average player at this point he just doesnt have it anymore. <br /><br />Curious how long they run him out there. He will prob get the rest of this yese and hopefully they cut bait this winter but who knows.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10283212738470404839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-89930434049269604192018-06-30T20:41:37.867-04:002018-06-30T20:41:37.867-04:00Even Vlad Guerrero, Albert Pujos all time great pl...Even Vlad Guerrero, Albert Pujos all time great players eventually end up in this point. Diff between all time great players and ok guys you barely remember is how long they hold the peak.<br /><br />Main theme is playing Professional sports is hard. Being one of the better players is even harder. Being one of the better players past age 29ish is even harder. It eventually gets to such a hard spot only 5 or so people a decade accomplish it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10283212738470404839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-31281062743653291802018-06-30T20:37:46.531-04:002018-06-30T20:37:46.531-04:00Being a professional athlete is hard. Only the bes...Being a professional athlete is hard. Only the best of the best stay great for more then a few years. Davis was always a flawed hitter but previously his true plus skill overshadowed the weakness. Once you age and the great skills erode even a little the weaknesses explode. Happens to every player, just playees with more rounded skill sets age a bit more gracefully.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10283212738470404839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-47432088386161520102018-06-27T15:02:24.713-04:002018-06-27T15:02:24.713-04:00Everybody has had the dream where you're sudde...Everybody has had the dream where you're suddenly placed in a job, circumstance, or whatever, and you have no idea how to do it. For me it's being on stage of a Broadway play (I have never acted) and am suddenly being asked to perform some sort of musical. I try to fake it, but it's instantly clear very quickly that I am a total fraud. Chris Davis has to be feeling like this every single day of his entire life. It has to be an absolute nightmare for him, and I have a lot of sympathy for him in this situation. How can someone achieve this atrocious level of play in the same lifetime in which they also hit 51 home runs in a season? It's completely inexplicable, and he must feel awful waking up every day and going to the ballpark, only to beat his head into the wall as he tries to regain some semblance of ability that made him arguably the most feared power hitter in baseball for a time.<br /><br />Like, I know that I'm kind of belaboring the point here, but Chris Davis was, very literally, at worst, one of the five most impressive power hitters in the game (and I'm being pretty conservative in saying Top Five). Chris Davis, once again, was one of the five best people on this entire planet at frequently hitting a baseball hard and far. It boggles my mind that he is in range for having the single worst season in the history of baseball by certain metrics. Let that sink in. Imagine being one of the greatest people in the world at anything (almost nobody can realistically do this, because almost nobody is in the Top, like, 50 million of Doing A Thing, really), and then falling so far that you could have the singular worst year of doing that exact same thing in like five years. What Chris Davis is doing is unheard of in any realm. It is truly unbelievable in the literal sense of the word.Dustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09749400957192021859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-14636902646564245212018-06-27T14:56:03.694-04:002018-06-27T14:56:03.694-04:00I am a season ticket holder and have been for seve...I am a season ticket holder and have been for several years.However i can stay home and watch Chris Davis strike out or hit into the shift.When i enter the left field seating area i ask one of the ushers to pick a number 2 3 or 4.Whatever number the young lady chooses i tell her that is the amount of strikeouts Chtis Davis will have that game.Every time Chris Davis strikes out everyone stands up and applaudes his lackadaisical effort of producing and getting on base.Every time that shift is put on him he should bunt down the third base line get on base and let one of the other 8 players in the lineup bring him in.Its time he earned his outrageous salary.As this continues attendance will fall off more than it has and the orioles will be the laughing stock of M L B.But don't worry Buck has the perfect response at his post game interview.He always says Whats up?Years ago the orioles had a season that began with a slogan Why Not.This season i have come up with a slogan that pertains to this team's effort and record as of June 27.The new slogan that the fans will find accurate and hilarious is WHY BOTHER.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844243316021299423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2893512317902577458.post-80697669434440685652018-06-27T10:31:12.350-04:002018-06-27T10:31:12.350-04:00I've stopped going to Oriole games, largely be...I've stopped going to Oriole games, largely because of Chris Davis. It is no fun watching him and the rest of this team strike out and lose time and time again. Davis has now struck out 6 times in a row, and he has 26 consecutive games with at least one strikeout. He has almost 3X as many strikeouts as hits, yet we're going to keep running him out there indefinitely? Davis is costing the Orioles a lot more than his outrageous salary. He's driving away paying customers like me. No reasonable person wants to watch this. louiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08647533446447334609noreply@blogger.com