Except: it’s hard to see how he keeps it up. Davis has a batting average on balls in play, since his return, of .417. The major league average is right around .300, and Davis usually checks in a bit below that, because he’s not exactly fast enough to earn infield hits in bunches. His B.A.B.I.P. during the streak is .536.
What Davis isn’t doing is hitting for any kind of power. What is encouraging is that his process, at least, would make it seem like a power surge is just around the corner. His walks are way up, his strikeouts down. He’s hitting line drives 35 percent of the time in August, and fly balls 58 percent of the time. Yet he doesn’t have a home run in the month.
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