Ike Davis's Power Sighted

by wobatus on Apr 30, 2009 4:33 PM EDT

Aftera dreadful pro debut and slow start to the year, Ike Davis is up to .297/.373/.446 and hit his first pro home run on Tuesday. Decent production for the Fla State league. No word on whether he painted an aluminum bat to look like wood.

Maybe he sucked the strength outta Nick Evans. What an atrocious start in Buffalo. of course, having tasted the buffet in the majors, he may be a little disappointed with the chicken wings, beef on weck, spiedies and saratoga fries up state. Although why that would be I don't know.

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Not sure it's possible

to get tired of beef on weck.

by deezle on Apr 30, 2009 4:59 PM EDT reply actions

yeah

although most of the world would be like “Wha?”

by wobatus on Apr 30, 2009 5:24 PM EDT reply actions

late career sean casey at best

by Bravesin07 on Apr 30, 2009 5:31 PM EDT reply actions

it's early yet.

We’ll see.

Not saying he’ll be a star, but at least as of now giving gklimmers of not being the complete bust he seemed.

Maybe he can turn into Adam Laroche. :)

by wobatus on Apr 30, 2009 6:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Davis is hitting .300/.400/.491 vRHP, so he certainly has the more useful of the two platoon splits. If he’s going to have to play first base, though, I don’t think he’s an answer. I think he’d be a better bet at LF or RF, which he can reportedly play.

by WrenFGun on Apr 30, 2009 5:41 PM EDT reply actions

1b/lf/reliever

They say he inherited Ron’s power arm.

by wobatus on Apr 30, 2009 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions

He can't play anywhere else

He looks pretty good at 1B, but I don’t think he nearly runs well enough to play outfield. Hes slower than I expected from those reports. He shouldn’t be anywhere but 1B.

But he has no doubt 30+ HR power potential as well. There really should be no question with his size and build that he’ll have 30+ HR power, the doubts should be about whether he’ll hit for enough average or not control the strike zone, strikeout too much, and not draw enough walks.

by acerimusdux on May 2, 2009 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions