Chris Davis was once again a bad baseball player for the Orioles during the 2019 season. There was, at least, an unexpected window of about five weeks where he managed to hit at an acceptable level. Those five weeks were fun but ultimately did little to quiet the sense that Davis is washed up and that the only question is when the new Orioles front office will decide that enough is enough and stop giving Davis chances.
Even the one feel-good story that surrounded Davis this season, when he met up with the 9-year-old kid who sent him a nice letter, is inextricably linked to the historic failure that prompted the boy to write Davis a letter: He set a new MLB record with 62 consecutive hitless plate appearances and 54 straight hitless at-bats.