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Steel Arm Davis (not to be confused with a few pitchers with the same nickname) could rake. Just a solid staring OFer with a few All Star selections tossed in. He didn’t have a great eye, and struck out a little more often than you’d like, but bottom line, his 320/370/490 line across his career represents high value production.

He missed a few years, which we’ve filled in while resisting the temptation to extend his career, despite solid seasons in his late 30’s.

Future drafts may revise some of the components of his batting line–there is an argument that he should draw a handful more walks and that he should add more power (essentially trading out doubles for triples and homeruns), but the overall shape feels very, very solid.

A lot revolves around how you see 1927, a year where Davis was a borderline MVP contender. If that is a bit of a fluke, representing a level across the board he never reached again, you get a career much like we have projected. If, instead, you see that as the level he would have performed at from 1924-1926, you end up with a borderline HoF hitter–and an argument could be made for that being a more accurate projection.

No matter where he played, he wasn’t very good in the field, hence his shuttling around between LF, RF, and 1B.

Name	Walter Davis (Steel Arm)
ID / Status	davis01ste / Draft
Pos	OF
DOB / i9s Career	06/22/1896 / 1919 - 1935
Birthplace	Wortham, TX (USA)
Height / Weight	6'1" / 175
B / T	L / L

 

Batting Projections

Year	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1919	186	46	8	3	1	14	18	5	2	0.247	0.300	0.339	0.639
1920	98	15	10	1	0	6	12	1	1	0.153	0.202	0.276	0.477
1921	238	59	18	8	5	17	20	4	2	0.248	0.298	0.454	0.752
1922	409	127	31	12	7	31	37	23	8	0.311	0.359	0.496	0.855
1923	486	156	27	15	7	39	44	12	6	0.321	0.371	0.481	0.853
1924	575	175	37	12	11	44	51	32	11	0.304	0.354	0.468	0.822
1925	487	160	31	13	10	36	36	27	7	0.329	0.375	0.507	0.882
1926	567	165	41	15	11	42	44	21	2	0.291	0.340	0.474	0.814
1927	535	205	36	10	13	47	46	44	5	0.383	0.433	0.561	0.994
1928	460	143	35	12	11	38	44	19	6	0.311	0.363	0.511	0.874
1929	567	164	30	17	15	46	51	12	5	0.289	0.343	0.481	0.824
1930	543	194	27	15	14	43	63	28	9	0.357	0.404	0.540	0.944
1931	442	154	33	13	9	41	52	8	5	0.348	0.404	0.543	0.947
1932	517	195	34	9	11	47	59	11	6	0.377	0.429	0.542	0.971
1933	411	120	26	5	10	36	42	4	3	0.292	0.349	0.453	0.802
1934	232	76	15	3	7	19	22	3	2	0.336	0.386	0.517	0.904
1935	243	55	14	2	2	20	24	2	1	0.226	0.285	0.325	0.610

 

Pitching Projections