Chris Davis is really breaking my mouth

In what threatens to become an Orioles home-opening tradition, Chris Davis scored one in three goals with three strikeouts and was more and more stunned for everyone.

Things are miserable right now for the Orioles first baseman. To start the season, he is incredibly 0 to 17 with 11 strikeouts. (For the record, his triple slash is 0.000 / .190 / .000.) Add to that the fact that he is only in the fourth year of a seven-year contract, worth $ 161 million. dollars, and you're going to have bullshit.

"This is not something I really expected," Davis told reporters after the match. "It was hard. At the same time, I heard that a lot last year and rightly so. I have said it before, I repeat: I understand the frustration. Nobody is more frustrated than me.

I'm sure, because it's not just 2019. Dating from last season, Davis finds himself at 0 for his last 38 games – just eight beats without a record-breaking MLB record from 0 to 46, established by Eugenio Vélez of the Giants in 2010 and 2011. Vélez was not a daily player and it took him over a year to reach this historic, so it is fair to say that the Davis slip is one of the most brutal in the history of baseball.

It would be a thing if it was a fluke. This is another time when 2018 was one of the worst seasons in the long history of this sport.

This is what happens when one of the three real results loses his typing speed, his power to keep the pitchers honest, and is reduced to an absolute hit. (The only real result for us all is the decline and possibly the death.) Davis is 33 years old and, although he can not drive forever, he's probably beyond the point where a fit of his mechanics can take him back to the guy who led the MLB in home runs did not take long in 2015. Or just to be a useful major league player. Or even a replacement level. Davis put the bar a putrid at -3.5 billion dollars last season, and as to emphasize this point, Hanser Alberto, who lost four shots before losing a single goal, was violently hit.

I do not know where everyone will go from here. The fans will not stop booing if it continues, even if Davis seems more like a pity than a man worthy of antipathy. The Orioles have not indicated that they would be willing to treat his contract as a sunk cost and release it, even if a replacement level player would likely improve the team. So what about Davis himself? It can not be fun. He is not going to retire, nor with this contract, nor should he. I was only half joking when I suggested to someone to accept an assignment in Norfolk, where he might just spend the next few years doing good numbers against 21-year-old players without being bawled. It does not seem so bad, right? Better than that. Everything would be better than that.