masn-baseballs-orioles.jpgAfter he hit two more homers last night, including the walk-off homer in the last of the ninth, Chris Davis is now batting .259 with 34 homers and 88 RBIs in 113 games.
Davis is now on a pace for 48 homers and 124 RBIs. He is currently second in the American League in homers, one behind Seattle’s Nelson Cruz. He now leads the AL in RBIs and his .555 slugging percentage ranks fifth in the league.
In this series against Oakland, Davis is 5-for-10 with three homers and five RBIs. In 13 games in…

After he hit two more homers last night, including the walk-off homer in the last of the ninth, Chris Davis is now batting .259 with 34 homers and 88 RBIs in 113 games.

Davis is now on a pace for 48 homers and 124 RBIs. He is currently second in the American League in homers, one behind Seattle’s Nelson Cruz. He now leads the AL in RBIs and his .555 slugging percentage ranks fifth in the league.

In this series against Oakland, Davis is 5-for-10 with three homers and five RBIs. In 13 games in August, he is batting .354 with nine homers, 18 RBIs, a .958 slugging percentage and a 1.405 OPS.

Before the All-Star break, Davis averaged a homer every 16.2 at-bats. Since the break, he has homered once every 6.8 at-bats. Over his last 23 games, he is batting .341 with 15 homers and 35 RBIs. If you kept that pace up for 162 games, a player would finish with 106 homers and 246 RBIs.

So, yeah, he’s doing quite well.

duquette-media-sidebar.jpgQuickly moving on to another topic, yesterday I wrote some quotes here from executive vice president Dan Duquette and O’s manager Buck Showalter from their “State of the Orioles” address Saturday afternoon with season ticket holders.

Here are a few more quotes that did not appear in that earlier story. A young fan asked Duquette, what is the hardest part of making a trade.

“The hardest part is knowing what you are trading, it is not necessarily knowing what you are getting back. You have to know exactly what it is that you are trading. You have to know your players first, before you can make a trade,” Duquette said.

A fan said this to Showalter: “Buck, when you are eligible to sign your contract extension?”

“I appreciate that thought, thank you very much,” Showalter said. “You know what? Every day here being an Oriole is a blessing and an honor and that is no cliche, I really mean that.

“I told Mr. (Peter) Angelos when he gets tired of my schtick, just give me a 20-minute notice and I’ll thank him for the opportunity and the blessing to be here and try to help whoever is coming in behind me. There were some people that took some bullets here. Whether it was Dave Trembley or Andy MacPhail, whether it’s John Russell in Pittsburgh before Clint Hurdle came in there.

“We are doing something important to people. We try to grind the heck out of each day. Try to win each day. I have a saying, ‘Let’s win something today.’ You can out-relationship somebody. You can out-prepare somebody. It is something you can bring as an organization. I’ve been fortunate to have good people around me.”

Now back to Davis to end this blog today. What kind of contract do you think it will now take the Orioles to re-sign Davis for 2016 and beyond?