Baltimore Orioles Chris Davis is Proving the Strike Out Wrong

The Baltimore Orioles’ Chris Davis is proving that the strikeout is a mismanaged stat.

The Baltimore Orioles spent a lot of money this Off-Season resigning slugger Chris Davis to a 7-yr $161 million dollar contract. This news created mixed reviews as analysts throughout baseball felt Baltimore overpaid for Davis and used his high volume of Strike Outs as their crutch. Well after doing some number crunching I have come to realize they don’t have a crutch to lean on as Chris’ 2015 campaign completely devalued the SO as a statistic all together.

There’s discussion every year over which statistics are aged and hold less meaning and how some of the new statistics, mainly discussing Sabermetrics,…