Stan "The Fan" Charles on Chris Davis

[PressBoxOnline]

Stan "The Fan" Charles says trying to live up to big contract has messed with Orioles slugger Chris Davis' head: 

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/10/16/trying-to-live-up-to-big-contract-has-messed-with-orioles-slugger-chris-davis-head

[webbrick2010]

He lost bat speed. He is no longer capable  of pulling a quality inside half fast ball and his high fly balls to LC are now more often than not dying on the warning track

He is washed up and the only question now is how much of his salary do the Orioles eat to get back a 25 man roster spot.

[jjnono]

When the only other alternative is to admit that he just isn't that good and that you overpaid by tens of millions of dollars, you sort of have to say "it's a mental thing" and try to believe it, right?

[Can_of_corn]

He put up a 3 win season the year following the deal.

Why would he start suffering ill effects in year two?

[interloper]

8 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

He put up a 3 win season the year following the deal.

Why would he start suffering ill effects in year two?

Yeah but to Chris Davis, he didn't hit as many dongs or drive in as many runs. He's not looking at WAR, more than likely.

[Can_of_corn]

7 minutes ago, interloper said:

Yeah but to Chris Davis, he didn't hit as many dongs or drive in as many runs. He's not looking at WAR, more than likely.

The point is, he was still pretty OK in 2016.  If the pressure from the deal is the problem why did it take another year to kick in?

[mdbdotcom]

15 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

The point is, he was still pretty OK in 2016.  If the pressure from the deal is the problem why did it take another year to kick in?

Maybe the bad hand he had in 2016 took his mind off of all the pressure he was under.

[wildbillhiccup]

This article is drivel. Purely speculative editorial drivel steeped in zero facts. Unless Stan is secretly going to night school to earn his degree in psychology then you'll have to forgive me if I take his thoughts on anxiety with about a million grains of salt. 

 

[tntoriole]

If he feels so much "pressure", he could give back, say, half....lol.   

[Tx Oriole]

2 hours ago, jjnono said:

When the only other alternative is to admit that he just isn't that good and that you overpaid by tens of millions of dollars, you sort of have to say "it's a mental thing" and try to believe it, right?

The three Amigos aren't going admit signing CD was a mistake. I don't see how the O's will get out of it. CD will be in Baltimore five more years. Yuck

[spiritof66]

Leonard Shecter

3 hours ago, wildbillhiccup said:

This article is drivel. Purely speculative editorial drivel steeped in zero facts. Unless Stan is secretly going to night school to earn his degree in psychology then you'll have to forgive me if I take his thoughts on anxiety with about a million grains of salt. 

 

Leonard Shecter, a very good and thoughtful sportswriter back in the 20th century (!), wrote a good book in the '60s about sports journalism. One of the things he said was that -- and this was back when there were fewer teams and shorter seasons -- on some days a daily paper's sports editor should decide that there should be no sports section, or only a little space given to sports, because nothing had happened and there wasn't much worth writing about. But it was true then, and truer now, that some guys have to write (or think they have to write) even when they have nothing to say that prospective readers don't know and couldn't figure out for themselves. . 

[24fps]

Welcome to Diagnosing From a Distance - the world's most entertaining internet game.

[spiritof66]

1 hour ago, 24fps said:

Welcome to Diagnosing From a Distance - the world's most entertaining internet game.

Yeah, it's tough to sort out Davis's problems if you have extensive knowledge about what's going on wiith him, or if you have some expertise that's relevant. But if you have neither, it somehow becomes a lot easier. 

[24fps]

11 minutes ago, spiritof66 said:

Yeah, it's tough to sort out Davis's problems if you have extensive knowledge about what's going on wiith him, or if you have some expertise that's relevant. But if you have neither, it somehow becomes a lot easier. 

An intellectual cornerstone of the digital age if I ever saw one.

[sportsfan8703]

Can't hit inside pitches. /thread.