He was pretty good once upon a time, but I don’t see many traits here to base a reclamation project on. He’s good enough at preventing hard contact I suppose. Didn’t last long in the rotation but did OK working out of the pen. A soft tosser who doesn’t generate much swing and miss anymore and had pretty poor walk rates this year. I’ve seen people guess that Alex Wood could end up with the Pirates this offseason. Who is the player that you least want to sign (realistically) in FA? - JhugsOaty on Twitter/X Unless he comes into camp looking miraculously improved, I don’t get it. Endy Rodiguez is way more advanced defensively already than Davis will likely ever be. Now they’re saying he’s coming into next season ready to catch. They said he was going to catch more down the stretch this season post trade deadline, he didn’t. I have never seen a Major League catcher have that issue. As in he drops pitches that arrive at home plate on the fly.

As questionable as Cruz is at shortstop, he is far and away a better shortstop than Davis is a catcher.ĭavis’s framing is awful, he doesn’t block well, and his hands are so bad back there he has trouble sometimes simply catching pitches.

The situation has been compared frequently by fans to keeping Oneil Cruz at short and bluntly, it’s not a good comparison. That kind of borders on being a distraction in my eyes. it's an extreme amount of work to be doing for something you’re not using. Advanced meetings, catching bullpens etc. OK, everything up until this point is mostly fine by me, where I begin to really take issue is that Davis was participating in all the extra work catchers have to do while not catching at all. They were really forced to use him in right because his catching was just simply not at a major league level. His development with the bat predictably ended up completely outpacing his development defensively. They took him number one overall because he was the best college bat available in a year with no consensus number one overall pick, and it let them spread around their money to ensure they got high quality talent later in a draft system that is functionally hard capped.

There were clear signs he might not stick at catcher when they drafted him, that’s fine. I find the Pirates handling of Henry Davis to be, in a word, bizarre. I answered an extremely similar question last month, it generated a lot of good responses, so I think it’s worth looking at again to address some of those. What are your thoughts on the Henry Davis situation with him focusing this offseason on C and not RF? - Nick Cammuso on Twitter/X Hey there and welcome to the offseason! You have questions about the Pittsburgh Pirates, I might possibly have some semi-competent answers for you.

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