Rob CarrWhen the Baltimore Orioles signed Chris Davis to the richest contract in franchise history in 2016, Davis was coming off two of the best years of his career. In 2013 finished third in the American League MVP race thanks to career-best marks in homers (53), runs batted in (138) and batting average (.286). The following season he went through injuries, slumps and a 25-game suspension for amphetamine. But he bounced back in 2015, hitting 47 homers and knocking in 117 runs.
Baltimore signed him in the hopes the 2013 and 2015 version of “Crush Davis” would show up for years to come, but that has been so unbelievably far from the case. He's fallen off in every hitting category with each passing year, and failed to reach 130 games played in each of the last two seasons. Making matters worse is that somehow, despite playing just 128 games in both 2017 and 2018, he's still finished inside the top 4 in the MLB in strikeouts. Futility might be an understatement when it comes to ..

As the old saying goes, you can take the Yasiel Puig out of LA, but you can't take the Yasiel Puig out of Yasiel Puig. Now a member of the Cincinnati Reds, Puig has been kicking around the NL Central for a few months, but officially announced himself to fans on Sunday when he single-handedly tried to fight half of Pittsburgh midway through the latest edition of their tepid division rivalry. THIS IS SPARTA!
The fun started when Pirates pitcher Chris Archer deliberately threw behind Derek Dietrich, who committed the capital crime of staring down a home run for a few precious seconds in the second inning. Manager David Bell was quickly out of the dugout to huff and puff, but everything was under control until Yasiel Puig came screaming out of stage right, ready to wipe the Steel City entirely from the map. The benches cleared, everything heated up and then cooled down, and just when it looked like the dust-up was finally dusted, Puig came charging in once more with feeling.
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