Talk:Chris Davis (baseball)

Deletions of pertinent information/inline citations
An editor has deleted much of the following paragraph repeatedly, including twice today. As I indicated before on this page at, which discussion the editor deleted without response, the inline references are appropriate, support the text, and comport with Wikipedia guidelines. Wknight has fine-tuned the language, and I agree with his helpful edits. The material has been the focus of many newspaper articles this season, which evidences its notability. And the inline citations directly support the material, and comport with Wiki guidelines. While the editor in his last edit summary wrote “there doesnt need to be 500 references for such little info,” I will note that: 1) there is only “such little info” in deference to user’s desire that there not be more info reflected, 2) the number of references seems appropriate to support the content to both me and Wknight, per his comment, and is in accord with Wiki guidelines, and includes articles from the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and 3) the number of references is somewhat fewer than 500.

The full paragraph is as follows, and the diff reflecting specifically what the editor has repeatedly deleted is

"After striking out in 30% of his at bats in 2008, Davis led all players in strikeouts during spring training, with 26 in 79 at bats, though he batted .304. In the regular season, he began on a record strikeout pace with 100 in only 219 at bats and, at one point, had made contact with the ball a league-worst 58.2% of the time.  On July 5, he was optioned to the minors, as Josh Hamilton came off the disabled list." --Ethelh (talk) 19:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm fine with reducing the number of quotes re being sent to the minors, if that is all they will support.

And here are two quotes that I thought appropriate, and would put back in:

"It's not the strikeouts that's bothering me, it's just that I'm not having productive at bats," Davis said.

On July 12, Davis said he felt he was is ready to return to Texas. --Ethelh (talk) 19:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Chris Davis: The Early Years
I would like someone to find info about Davis' early years as far back as high school atleast. The man is 6'4 235lbs of pure mucle and is extremely athletic (flexible and agile) as evidencenced by the amazing plays he routinely makes in the field. Surely someone with such a freakish combination of size and agility played other sports growing up. I am curious about his athletic history. A man with such size and athleticism and hand eye coordination is quite rare and I am surprised that he seems to have not been very highly heralded in his early days. I am basing that assumption on the lack of info available about him prior to 2006 and his relatively low draft spot. I would think such an athletic specimen would have been a 3 sport high school all american nd Division A college top recruit. If anyone could provide some info on his early athletic history it would greatly approve his Wiki page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.165.27 (talk) 07:54, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Position
At the end of 2012 he played a fair bit of outfield, didn't he. Should his listed "position" change? With the departure of Reynolds, it seems likely that he'll be at first again, but we shouldn't assume that should we? 67.234.253.4 (talk) 20:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Bull Durham
While Crush Davis does sound like "Crash Davis" it may also simply have come about because it sounds like Chris Davis. The Article cited does not mention the movie? Anyone know a source that verifies the movie was the inspiration? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.173.225.33 (talk) 16:24, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Requested Move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: no move. The consensus appears to be that there is insufficient long-term information to conclude that this is the primary topic. --  tariq abjotu  15:00, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

– I know part of the attention Chris Davis the baseball player is getting is because of what he's doing this season. However, after checking the page view statistics, I believe he is clearly the primary topic. In the last 90 days, this one has 118,620 views while Chris Davis (politician) has 338 views, Chris Davis (fighter) has 684 views, Chris Davis (musician) has 640 views, Chris Davis (wide receiver, born 1983) has 288 views, and Chris Davis (wide receiver, born 1984) has 861 views. If Davis should reach 60 home runs, I would like to point out that Roger Maris (who has been retired for years) had 54,572 views over the last 90 days, still a gigantic increase over the views of the other Davis's put together. Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 17:33, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Chris Davis (baseball) → Chris Davis
 * Chris Davis → Chris Davis (disambiguation)


 * Oppose – more primarytopic mania/recentism. The name is very ambiguous, and the disambig page serves well; leave it.  Dicklyon (talk) 01:28, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - this isn't a primary topic. – Michael (talk) 21:19, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Strong Support - if his view count is two orders of magnitude greater than the combined total of all its alternatives then clearly the current disambig page is simply getting in our users' way. The primary topic seems pretty clearcut here.--Xiaphias (talk) 03:32, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose Who? If you can admit "what he's doing this season" is driving recent page views, don't turn right around and give us recent page views. Go back and look at a point when he wasn't in the news a lot. If he still dominates pageviews, I could change my mind. --BDD (talk) 18:21, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Baltimore Orioles (2011-present)
The final line in this section is incorrect. Adam Jones has only had one 100 RBI season, that being the 2013 season. He and Davis could not, therefore, have had back-to-back 30 HR and 100 RBI seasons. In fact, 2013 is also Davis' only 100 RBI season.

69.7.229.78 (talk) 18:01, 27 September 2013 (UTC)osfandavy@rcn.com

Source dump

 * Feature article on his future with the Orioles.  Go  Phightins  !  03:24, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Baseball assessment comment
Substituted at 14:18, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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"Robbed of three home runs" in July, 2015
This should have further explanation. Aside from being unsourced, how could one conclude on July 23 that three robbed HR's was "more than any other Major Leaguer the entire year" (see this diff)? That seems like a crystal ball prediction at the time, since the season wasn't even over then. There's no further explanation given: was he "robbed" because of fan interference, spectacular defensive plays, or bad umpiring calls? The reader is left to wonder, as the rest of the paragraph has nothing more to say about it. This first sentence of the paragraph seems out of place.  JGHowes   talk  01:17, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 April 2019
In 2019, he set the MLB record for the most consecutive at bats by a position player without a hit, going 0-for-54. This streak began in 2018 and expanded through the beginning of the 2019 season. On April 13, 2019, his hitless streak ended as he went 3 for 5 with two doubles and 4 RBIs. MJFK61 (talk) 18:14, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. The information on his hitless streak is already in the article. See Chris Davis (baseball) NiciVampireHeart 18:19, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Later years of career
This article was assessed as a good article back in 2014. To me, it appears that the portions of the article dealing with the period after 2014 are not at the same level of quality as the rest of the article. In its current form, I don't believe the article matches the "good article" criteria at this point. I have done some work on the period after 2014 and would welcome other editors to join me in getting it back up to speed. MonMothma (talk) 01:48, 11 April 2024 (UTC)