One of the running jokes here on LSB last season was “Matt Davidson, Elite Hitter.” This stemmed from Chris Woodward saying late last spring, when Davidson was sent down, that Davidson was “close to being an elite guy.”
Davidson, of course, did not become an elite guy, or even make it onto the Rangers’ major league roster, and so it was treated as an oddity, a weird affinity that Woodward had for Davidson that had no real basis in reality, or just an extreme exaggeration that Woodward was making while trying to soften the blow of sending a player down.