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If you like Baseball, Great Food and Cold Drinks ... You have to here when you cross the Bay Bridge! 216 St. Claire Place Stevensville, MD 21666 • 410.604.1120 • BigBats.com (located off of Rt. 50 East of the Bay Bridge, Exit 37) 4 | SEPTEMBER 2018 | | PRESSBOXSPORTS | @PRESSBOXONLINE ONE FAN’S OPINION tions with the Orioles. Orioles Need Sixty Percent Davis’ deal gets characterized as a seven- year, $161 million deal, which averages out to $23 million per year. But the fact is the Ori- Of The Best Chris Davis oles will be paying Davis for a long time be- 3600 Clipper Mill Road yond the seven-year term. That’s because - Suite 300 - With Angelos’ consent, MacPhail deliv- Stan “The Fan” Charles Davis was willing to take $3.5 million per year Baltimore, MD 21211 ered a wonderful parting gift to the Orioles, from 2023-2032 and $1.4 million annually from Phone: (410) 366-7272 just two months before he would walk away verybody thinks the Texas 2033-2037. It adds up to $42 million of deferred - PressBoxOnline.com - from his team presidency position. But Davis Rangers traded first base- money. has become the parting gift that turned into man Chris Davis and right- So while Birdland can get all up in arms Founder And Publisher more of a nightmare. hander Tommy Hunter to about this contract, the fact of the matter is It’s easy now for everyone to throw their Stan Charles E the Baltimore Orioles for the two final years of this deal -- which turned hands up and say, “What was Peter Angelos relief pitcher extraordi- it into a seven-year term -- were what bought Vice President, Sales and Marketing thinking in signing Davis to a seven-year, $161 naire Koji Uehara July 30, the Orioles some salary flexibility. Davis is ac- million contract?” John Coulson 2 011. tually getting $17 million per year throughout I’ll allow that Davis’ contract marks a low Well, that is only partly correct. Rangers the seven-year term, not $23 million. Vice President of digital Services point in Angelos’ history of negotiations for general manager Jon Daniels and then- The contract that most closely resembles his baseball team, but I say that only in Jennifer Nelson Orioles president of baseball the Davis deal was the five-year, $125 million terms of the total compensation offered operations Andy MacPhail deal the Philadelphia Phillies gave to slugging Managing Editor by the club, not regarding the mer- initially couldn’t totally first baseman Ryan Howard in April 2010. its of signing Davis. Even with how Luke Jackson agree on the terms of What gets lost in the shuffle a bit is Howard poorly Davis has performed through the deal. That’s when was in the second year of a three-year, $54 mil- manager of digital programming the first three years of the contract, MacPhail went to Ori- lion extension when he signed the five-year I still have hope Davis can provide Glenn Clark oles owner Peter An- deal. some value in the future, especially gelos and explained When taken together, during his last eight Account executives given how his contract was struc- the Orioles would have years with the Phillies -- 2009-2016 -- Howard tured. Julie Sawyer Jordan Burt to throw in a significant earned $179 million, or just under Davis’ on- During Davis’ first four full sea- bundle of cash -- $2 mil- paper average annual value of $23 million per Dede Glassband Dave Patrick sons with the Orioles, the slugging lion to be exact -- year. Keeping in mind Davis did offer the Ori- first baseman averaged 530 at-bats, senior editorial adviser to get Davis. oles a significant deferral, these contracts are 136 hits, 27 doubles, 39 home runs fairly similar. Bill Ordine and 103 RBIs while batting .256 with There is no denying the Phillies had more an on-base percentage of .339. Senior Graphic Designer pure evidence that their evaluation of How- Those numbers include a cata- Kimberly Shilling ard’s value was accurate than the Orioles had strophic 2014 campaign, dur- when they signed Davis. During the three ing which he was suspended Cover Designer seasons prior to awarding Howard that initial 25 games for the use of Molly Blosse three-year, $54 million extension in 2009, How- Adderall. Davis hadn’t re- ard averaged 51 home runs, 143 RBIs and an ceived permission from Office Manager on-base percentage of .385. MLB to take Adderall to Leah Lancaster treat his attention defi- In Howard’s case, it was his torn Achilles cit hyperactivity disorder tendon that rendered him a very different Staff Photographer player for the new five-year contract that be- (ADHD). Davis posted Kenya Allen a .196 batting average, 26 gan in 2012. Howard suffered the injury during home runs, 72 RBIs and the last play of the Phillies’ decisive Game 5 “inside PressBox” playoff loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011. a .300 on-base percent- Dave Laishley, senior producer age during his ill-fated In Davis’ case, there is no simple smoking Matt Stovall, producer/videographer season. gun other than thinking the contract itself But in 2015 with free has weighed so heavily on his mind that it Interns agency beckoning, Davis serves as his personal, psychological version returned to form by slug- of an Achilles tear. Joe Catapano Duncan Woodward ging 47 home runs and Davis had an eight-day break in June knocking in 117 runs while to work on things with hitting coach Scott batting .262 with a .361 on- Coolbaugh and vice president of baseball base percentage. He was operations Brady Anderson. He was bat- using Vyvanse to treat his ting .150 with three home runs and 15 RBIs ADHD, which was cleared at the time of the break. To his credit, Davis by MLB. worked the batting average up to .175 through All of this merely re- Sept. 11, and he has improved his home run > Scott Rifkin counts what went into the and RBI totals from god-awful to just weak. > Bradford Mills grossest overpay in the The analytics folks will tell you Davis is > Stan Charles history of the team. But a lost cause, which is probably a higher per- ard of > John Coulson Bo centage call than what I am going to hope and just as it’s not fair to sim- Directors > Andrew Levine ply say the Orioles traded root for. for Davis, it’s not exactly If the Orioles can get 60 percent of the best PressBox is published monthly by Word Smith Media Ve ntures, LLC, fair to say Davis didn’t version of Davis, that comes out to about 30 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 300, Baltimore, Maryland 21211 home runs, 82 RBIs and solid if not spectacu- (410-366-7272). Copyright 2016 by Word Smith Media Ve ntures, give something fairly LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be significant back to the lar defense, which isn’t horrible for $17 million reproduced without the expressed written consent of the publisher. Orioles during his and a year. The team and Davis probably deserve PressBox is a free publication distributed every month on the 15 th in agent Scott Boras’ at least that much out of the rest of the first the Baltimore metropolitan area.