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Wednesday Bird Droppings: Where we are ready to talk about players other than Chris Davis

Good morning, Birdland!

Spring training is still in its infancy, so there is plenty of time for storylines to develop. For now, it seems the only common point of interest we have is Chris Davis. The highly-paid “slugger” worked out with Craig Gentry, gained weight and trolled everyone in his first batting practice of the spring by pretending to change his swing. Lovely.

Why even waste energy on Davis at this point? He has been a bad baseball player for three consecutive seasons, accounting for -3.8 bWAR in those years. Now he enters his age 34 season, and we are going to pretend like maybe he unlocked some hidden ability over the winter?