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Post by kaybli on Jun 23, 2024 12:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by Max on Jun 23, 2024 12:43:35 GMT -5
I think I posted about a week or so ago wondering maybe the Yankees might be interested in Davis. But didn't really give it much of a second thought. I hope it doesn't mean that they are going to send Rice back to Triple A.
Just a thought...Maybe Davis DHs and plays some 1B/3B while Stanton is on the IL?
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Post by fwclipper51 on Jun 23, 2024 15:17:10 GMT -5
From MLB Rumors
Yankees Acquire J.D. Davis
By Nick Deeds | June 23, 2024 at 12:46pm CDT
The Yankees announced this afternoon that they’ve acquired infielder J.D. Davis and cash considerations from the A’s in exchange infielder Jordan Groshans. Davis had been designated for assignment by the A’s earlier this week. The Yankees transferred right-hander Nick Burdi to the 60-day injured list in order to make room for Davis on the 40-man roster.
Davis, 31, signed with the A’s in late spring after the Giants released Davis during Spring Training in order to get out from under most of the $6.9MM salary he had been awarded in arbitration over the winter. He managed to secure a guarantee of just $2.5MM from Oakland, a far cry from his previously-awarded arbitration salary even after factoring in the roughly $1.1MM in termination pay he received from San Francisco. After that late spring controversy, Davis went on to appear in 39 games with the A’s where he slashed a roughly league average .236/.304/.366 in 135 trips to the plate while splitting time between first base, third base, and DH.
While his offensive numbers this year leave something to be desired, Davis’s positional versatility and track record as an above-average hitter make him a perfect fit for the Yankees’ current needs. The club lost starting DH Giancarlo Stanton to the injured list earlier today, and first baseman Anthony Rizzo was also placed on the shelf not long ago due to a fractured forearm. Rookie Ben Rice has scuffled a bit in his first few games replacing Rizzo at first base, while the club has no obvious alternative to Stanton as an everyday DH in-house. Even at third base, where the club is currently relying on the combination of Oswaldo Cabrera and DJ LeMahieu, the club has gotten a wRC+ of just 78 that ranks second-worst in the AL ahead of only the White Sox.
Enter Davis, who entered the 2024 season with five consecutive seasons as an above-average hitter under his belt split between the Mets and Giants. Since the start of the 2019 season, Davis has slashed a solid .265/.349/.438 with a wRC+ of 118. While he’s struck out a 27.1% clip during that time, he’s walked at a healthy 10% rate while flashing 20-homer power. That sort of production would be a major upgrade for a Yankees club that has generally struggled to produce offense outside of the outfield this year even before losing Stanton for at least the short-term. Davis seems likely to slide into the everyday DH role for the Yankees while Stanton is unavailable, but could also spell Rice at first base against left-handed pitching and even contribute at third alongside LeMahieu and Cabrera.
On days where Davis is playing the infield, the Yankees could offer Aaron Judge or Juan Soto the opportunity to get a half-day of rest as a DH and improve the club’s outfield defense by inserting glove-first center fielder Trent Grisham into the mix. When Stanton eventually returns to reclaim regular at-bats at DH, the Yankees would likely determine how to proceed from there based on how Davis, Rice, Cabrera, and LeMahieu have performed in those current roles to that point. That being said, if Davis can even maintain his production as an Athletic in the Bronx he should be a shoe-in for at least semi-regular playing time around the Yankees infield even after Stanton’s eventual return.
In exchange for Davis’s services, the Yankees are sending Groshans to Oakland. The 24-year-old’s stint in the Yankees organization was a relatively brief one, as the club claimed him off waivers from the Marlins back in February. He was outrighted off their 40-man roster in early March and has struggled to this point in the 2024 season with a .232/.310/.281 slash line while playing all four infield spots in 50 games split between the Double- and Triple-A levels. That follows a similarly rough performance at Triple-A with Miami last year; in 528 plate appearances across 125 games in 2023, Groshans slashed a paltry .244/.339/.330 with just six home runs.
Despite Groshan’s struggled over the past two seasons, it’s not hard to see why the A’s would be willing to give the youngster a shot. After all, the infielder was the twelfth overall pick in the 2018 draft by the Blue Jays and received plenty of top prospect buzz earlier in his career, including a stint as a consensus top-50 prospect in the sport back in 2021. That pedigree combined with Groshans’s stronger numbers at the Double-A level earlier in his career provide some reason for optimism that the youngster could contribute at the big league level at some point. That possibility is surely an attractive one for an Oakland club that has struggled to find a consistent option at third base this year while cycling between Davis, Abraham Toro, and Tyler Nevin at the position.
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Post by kaybli on Jun 23, 2024 19:40:55 GMT -5
HR pic for The Sun Bear at least until they release him in a Yankee uniform:
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 23, 2024 19:42:03 GMT -5
HR pic for The Sun Bear at least until they release him in a Yankee uniform:
I hope we see this thing a lot the next three months. |
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Post by bumper on Jun 23, 2024 21:10:00 GMT -5
I think I posted about a week or so ago wondering maybe the Yankees might be interested in Davis. But didn't really give it much of a second thought. I hope it doesn't mean that they are going to send Rice back to Triple A. Just a thought...Maybe Davis DHs and plays some 1B/3B while Stanton is on the IL? davis is a righty so he probably platoons w rice at 1B and maybe gets a couple starts at 3B. career .259 BA w a .768 OPS and some pop so not the usual dumpster dive. probably the best cashman could do at this time, with the TDL still a month away. |
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Post by cocopugg on Jun 23, 2024 22:37:01 GMT -5
I think I posted about a week or so ago wondering maybe the Yankees might be interested in Davis. But didn't really give it much of a second thought. I hope it doesn't mean that they are going to send Rice back to Triple A. Just a thought...Maybe Davis DHs and plays some 1B/3B while Stanton is on the IL? davis is a righty so he probably platoons w rice at 1B and maybe gets a couple starts at 3B. career .259 BA w a .768 OPS and some pop so not the usual dumpster dive. probably the best cashman could do at this time, with the TDL still a month away. I like the deal, a good plug in for several needed positions. I look forward to seeing him in action. |
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Post by inger on Jun 23, 2024 22:57:50 GMT -5
I think I posted about a week or so ago wondering maybe the Yankees might be interested in Davis. But didn't really give it much of a second thought. I hope it doesn't mean that they are going to send Rice back to Triple A. Just a thought...Maybe Davis DHs and plays some 1B/3B while Stanton is on the IL? davis is a righty so he probably platoons w rice at 1B and maybe gets a couple starts at 3B. career .259 BA w a .768 OPS and some pop so not the usual dumpster dive. probably the best cashman could do at this time, with the TDL still a month away. A motto for J.D. : “J.D. Davis, he’s better than a dumpster dive.”… |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 23, 2024 23:38:31 GMT -5
One disclaimer, Davis is absolutely awful defensively at 3rd so we may not see much if any of him there.
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Post by desousa on Jun 24, 2024 6:34:46 GMT -5
Davis's lifetime splits aren't that different. He hits lefties and righties pretty much the same. I hope he DH's. I want to see Rice play every day.
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Post by kaybli on Jun 24, 2024 7:07:46 GMT -5
Davis's lifetime splits aren't that different. He hits lefties and righties pretty much the same. I hope he DH's. I want to see Rice play every day. They already said JD will play 1st against lefties which I'm not happy about. Let Ben Rice hit against lefties. He's improved against them this year and I don't want him pigeon-holed into being a platoon player. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 24, 2024 8:26:00 GMT -5
Davis's lifetime splits aren't that different. He hits lefties and righties pretty much the same. I hope he DH's. I want to see Rice play every day. They already said JD will play 1st against lefties which I'm not happy about. Let Ben Rice hit against lefties. He's improved against them this year and I don't want him pigeon-holed into being a platoon player. I thought they were going to use him at DH until Stanton came back. I'm not fan of Rice getting his AB's cut and I definitely don't want to see Davis at third base. |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 24, 2024 10:28:22 GMT -5
They already said JD will play 1st against lefties which I'm not happy about. Let Ben Rice hit against lefties. He's improved against them this year and I don't want him pigeon-holed into being a platoon player. I thought they were going to use him at DH until Stanton came back. I'm not fan of Rice getting his AB's cut and I definitely don't want to see Davis at third base. This is what Hoch reported. I don't know if its true. Maybe he's just speculating:
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Post by bumper on Jun 24, 2024 10:50:13 GMT -5
davis is a righty so he probably platoons w rice at 1B and maybe gets a couple starts at 3B. career .259 BA w a .768 OPS and some pop so not the usual dumpster dive. probably the best cashman could do at this time, with the TDL still a month away. A motto for J.D. : “J.D. Davis, he’s better than a dumpster dive.”… not really a dive - plucked him off the top of the dumpster. who was that - gittens - now that was from the bottom. |
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Post by bumper on Jun 24, 2024 10:56:26 GMT -5
Davis's lifetime splits aren't that different. He hits lefties and righties pretty much the same. I hope he DH's. I want to see Rice play every day. They already said JD will play 1st against lefties which I'm not happy about. Let Ben Rice hit against lefties. He's improved against them this year and I don't want him pigeon-holed into being a platoon player.don't think that'll happen. he's a rookie w/o a lot of experience. ease him in and take some pressure off. plus - despite the slump - we're in "win now" mode and they probably feel davis against LH'ers gives us a better balanced lineup. ultimately rice'll be full-time. hell paul o'neill was platooned for a number of years. |
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