The Orioles re-signing of Chris Davis seemed to take a lot of the baseball world by surprise. It certainly took the Camden Chat population by surprise. Will it prove to be a good deal? Will it prove to be an awful one? Right now, absolutely no one knows, not even the Orioles, who will be paying Davis $119 million over the next seven years and a total of $161 million once all deferred money is paid. Knowing nothing is never going to stop the hot take machine from firing up.
There was a notable split in the tenor of the opinions on the contract based on whether or not the individual writers raced to post their thoughts before the news of the deferred money was reported.