Davidson (The GOAT) fanned super-slugger Giancarlo Stanton on Monday night with a devastating hook right and textbook demonstration of sequencing. Sure, Stanton strikes out 30 percent of the time, but Davidson worked him high in the strike zone and set up a buried breaking ball with seasoned aplomb. And for his next trick, he worked out of trouble after Aaron Hicks laced a single for the first hit Davidson allowed in the big leagues.
Davidson may have a second act as a pitcher if he can't figure it out at the plate. Just look at the records he is setting on the mound.
The Matt-Davidson experiment is working. The good news is that the Rick Renteria is using his secret weapon in instances that don't make a mockery of the game. Davidson has only pitched in the ninth inning of blow-out games and increasingly, he is becoming a serious option in tough situations. If Renteria trotted Davidson out in the fourth inning of a losing effort to mop up innings I would be the first person to call him out for negligence and disrespecting the game. But closing out the ninth in a lost effort is fair. Davidson is not a pitcher and with each trip to the mound, I fear injury more and more. I know it is unlikely, and he has only thrown three innings, but it only takes one pitch to put him on the shelf for an entire season. And yeah, I know, we wouldn't miss his .222 batting average with streaky power numbers. Still, he's a quality piece of the puzzle as the White Sox saunter down the meandering road to success.
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