Oakland Athletics: Healy to Mariners, Khris Davis now unavailable

Khris, the real-deal Davis

Now, a good as Davis can be, which is pretty darn good especially given that he is hitting a very pitcher-friendly ballpark where the marine layer sets in an keep balls inside the yard, the likelihood of him ever winning three MVP Awards or The Triple crown like Foxx, is extremely slim.

However, there is no reason why he can’t complete 2018 by tying Foxx’s three-straight season record.

And you can’t forget that he has become the face of the team, despite, having only been with Oakland for two seasons.

He really made his mark with the fans when he openly talked about loving the City of Oakland (and it definitely doesn’t hurt that he’s added 40-plus homers and 100-plus RBI to the A’s stats in each of the past two years).

But don’t the Oakland Athletics need the 25-year-old slugger Healy? He hit 25 homers in 2017 and can play multiple positions including first base, third base, and act as the team’s designated hitter. He seems like a guy a team would want to keep.

However, the A’s have superstars in the making in Matt Chapman at third and Matt Olson at first base.

Davis doesn’t play the best defense or have the strongest arm in left field. This move makes room for Davis to be the primary DH and will give players like Boog Powell, Chad Pinder and a number of other promising prospects a chance to make their mark in center and left, with Matt Joyce rooted in right field for at least another year.